1 The words of God which
he spake unto Moses, at a time when Moses was caught up into an
exceeding high mountain, and he saw God face to face, and he talked
with him, and the glory of God was upon Moses; therefore Moses could
endure his presence.

2 And God spake unto
Moses, saying, Behold, I am the Lord God Almighty, and endless is my
name, for I am without beginning of days or end of years; and is not
this endless?

3 And behold, thou art my
son, wherefore look, and I will show thee the workmanship of mine
hands, but not all; for my works are without end, and also my words,
for they never cease; wherefore, no man can behold all my works
except he behold all my glory; and no man can behold all my glory,
and afterwards remain in the flesh, on the earth.

4 And I have a work for
thee, Moses, my son; and thou art in the similitude of mine Only
Begotten; and my Only Begotten is and shall be the Savior, for he is
full of grace and truth; but there is no God beside me; and all
things are present with me, for I know them all.

5 And now, behold, this
one thing I show unto thee, Moses, my son; for thou art in the world,
and now I show it unto thee.

6 And it came to pass,
that Moses looked and beheld the world upon which he was created. And
as Moses beheld the world, and the ends thereof, and all the children
of men, which are and which were created; of the same he greatly
marvelled, and wondered. And the presence of God withdrew from Moses,
that his glory was not upon Moses; and Moses was left unto himself;
and as he was left unto himself, he fell unto the earth.

7 And it came to pass,
that it was for the space of many hours before Moses did again
receive his natural strength like unto man; and he said unto himself,
Now, for this cause, I know that man is nothing, which thing I never
had supposed; but now mine eyes have beheld God; but not mine natural
but my spiritual eyes, for mine natural eyes could not have beheld,
for I should have withered and died in his presence; but his glory
was upon me, and I beheld his face, for I was transfigured before
him.

8 And now it came to
pass, that when Moses had said these words, behold, Satan came
tempting him, saying, Moses, son of man, worship me. And it came to
pass that Moses looked upon Satan, and said, Who art thou, for behold
I am a son of God, in the similitude of his Only Begotten; and where
is thy glory, that I should worship thee? For, behold, I could not
look upon God except his glory should come upon me, and I were
transfigured before him. But I can look upon thee in the natural man.
Is it not so surely?

9 Blessed be the name of
my God, for his Spirit hath not altogether withdrawn from me; or else
where is thy glory, for it is darkness unto me, and I can judge
between thee and God; for God said unto me, Worship God, for him only
shalt thou serve. Get thee hence, Satan, deceive me not; for God said
unto me, Thou art after the similitude of mine Only Begotten.

10 And he also gave unto
me commandment, when he called unto me out of the burning bush,
saying, Call upon God in the name of mine Only Begotten, and worship
me.

11 And again, Moses said,
I will not cease to call upon God. I have other things to inquire of
him; for his glory has been upon me, and it is glory unto me;
wherefore, I can judge between him and thee. Depart hence, Satan.

12 And now, when Moses
had said these words, Satan cried with a loud voice, and went upon
the earth, and commanded, saying, I am the Only Begotten, worship me.

13 And it came to pass,
that Moses began to fear exceedingly; and as he began to fear, he saw
the bitterness of hell; nevertheless, calling upon God he received
strength, and he commanded, saying, Depart hence, Satan; for this one
God only will I worship, which is the God of glory.

14 And now, Satan began
to tremble, and the earth shook, and Moses received strength and
called upon God in the name of the Only Begotten, saying to Satan,
Depart hence.

15 And it came to pass,
that Satan cried with a loud voice, with weeping, and wailing, and
gnashing of teeth, and departed hence; yea, from the presence of
Moses, that he beheld him not.

16 And now, of this thing
Moses bore record; but because of wickedness, it is not had among the
children of men.

17 And it came to pass,
that when Satan had departed from the presence of Moses, that Moses
lifted up his eyes unto heaven, being filled with the Holy Ghost,
which beareth record of the Father and the Son; and calling upon the
name of God, he beheld again his glory; for it rested upon him, and
he heard a voice, saying, Blessed art thou, Moses, for I, the
Almighty, have chosen thee, and thou shalt be made stronger than many
waters; for they shall obey thy command even as if thou wert God.

18 And lo, I am with
thee, even unto the end of thy days, for thou shalt deliver my people
from bondage; even Israel my chosen.

19 And it came to pass,
as the voice was still speaking, he cast his eyes and beheld the
earth; yea, even all the face of it; and there was not a particle of
it which he did not behold, discerning it by the Spirit of God. And
he beheld also the inhabitants thereof, and there was not a soul
which he beheld not, and he discerned them by the Spirit of God, and
their numbers were great, even as numberless as the sand upon the
seashore. And he beheld many lands, and each land was called earth;
and there were inhabitants on the face thereof.

20 And it came to pass,
that Moses called upon God, saying, Tell me, I pray thee, why these
things are so, and by what thou madest them? And behold the glory of
God was upon Moses, so that Moses stood in the presence of God, and
he talked with him face to face.

21 And the Lord God said
unto Moses, For mine own purpose have I made these things. Here is
wisdom, and it remaineth in me. And by the word of my power have I
created them, which is mine Only Begotten Son, who is full of grace
and truth. And worlds without number have I created, and I also
created them for mine own purpose; and by the Son I created them,
which is mine Only Begotten. And the first man of all men have I
called Adam, which is many. But only an account of this earth, and
the inhabitants thereof, give I unto you; for behold there are many
worlds which have passed away by the word of my power; and there are
many also which now stand, and numberless are they unto man; but all
things are numbered unto me; for they are mine, and I know them.

22 And it came to pass,
that Moses spake unto the Lord, saying, Be merciful unto thy servant,
O God, and tell me concerning this earth, and the inhabitants
thereof; and also the heavens, and then thy servant will be content.

23 And the Lord God spake
unto Moses, saying, The heavens, they are many and they can not be
numbered unto man, but they are numbered unto me, for they are mine;
and as one earth shall pass away, and the heavens thereof, even so
shall another come; and there is no end to my works, neither to my
words; for this is my work and my glory, to bring to pass the
immortality, and eternal life of man.

24 And now, Moses, my
son, I will speak unto you concerning this earth upon which thou
standest; and thou shalt write the things which I shall speak. And in
a day when the children of men shall esteem my words as naught, and
take many of them from the book which thou shalt write, behold I will
raise up another like unto thee, and they shall be had again among
the children of men, among even as many as shall believe.

25 These words were
spoken unto Moses in the mount, the name of which shall not be known
among the children of men. And now they are spoken unto you. Amen.

1 And it came to pass,
that the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Behold, I reveal unto you
concerning this heaven and this earth; write the words which I speak.

2 I am the Beginning and
the End; the Almighty God. By mine Only Begotten I created these
things.

3 Yea, in the beginning I
created the heaven, and the earth upon which thou standest.

4 And the earth was
without form, and void; and I caused darkness to come up upon the
face of the deep.

5 And my Spirit moved
upon the face of the waters, for I am God.

6 And I, God, said, Let
there be light, and there was light.

7 And I, God, saw the
light, and that light was good. And I, God, divided the light from
the darkness.

8 And I, God, called the
light day, and the darkness I called night. And this I did by the
word of my power; and it was done as I spake. And the evening and the
morning were the first day.

9 And again, I, God,
said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters; and it was
so, even as I spake. And I said, Let it divide the waters from the
waters; and it was done.

10 And I, God, made the
firmament, and divided the waters; yea, the great waters under the
firmament, from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was
so, even as I spake.

11 And I, God, called the
firmament heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second
day.

12 And I, God, said, Let
the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place; and
it was so. And I, God, said, Let there be dry land; and it was so.

13 And I, God, called the
dry land earth; and the gathering together of the waters called I the
sea.

14 And I, God, saw that
all things which I had made were good.

15 And I, God, said, Let
the earth bring forth grass; the herb yielding seed; the fruit tree
yielding fruit after his kind; and the tree yielding fruit, whose
seed should be in itself, upon the earth; and it was so, even as I
spake.

16 And the earth brought
forth grass; every herb yielding seed after his kind; and the tree
yielding fruit, whose seed should be in itself, after his kind.

17 And I, God, saw that
all things which I had made were good. And the evening and the
morning were the third day.

18 And I, God, said, Let
there be lights in the firmament of the heaven, to divide the day
from the night; and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for
days and for years, and let them be for lights in the firmament of
the heaven, to give light upon the earth; and it was so.

19 And I, God, made two
great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light
to rule the night; and the greater light was the sun, and the lesser
light was the moon.

20 And the stars also
were made, even according to my word; and I, God, set them in the
firmament of the heaven, to give light upon the earth; and the sun to
rule over the day, and the moon to rule over the night, and to divide
the light from the darkness.

21 And I, God, saw that
all things which I had made were good. And the evening and the
morning were the fourth day.

22 And I, God, said, Let
the waters bring forth abundantly, the moving creature that hath
life, and fowl which may fly above the earth, in the open firmament
of heaven.

23 And I, God, created
great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters
brought forth abundantly, after their kind; and every winged fowl,
after his kind.

24 And I, God, saw that
all things which I had created were good; and I, God, blessed them,
saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the sea,
and let fowl multiply in the earth. And the evening and the morning
were the fifth day.

25 And I, God, said, Let
the earth bring forth the living creature, after his kind; cattle and
creeping things, and beasts of the earth, after their kind; and it
was so.

26 And I, God, made the
beasts of the earth, after their kind; and cattle after their kind;
and everything which creepeth upon the earth, after his kind. And I,
God, saw that all these things were good.

27 And I, God, said unto
mine Only Begotten, which was with me from the beginning, Let us make
man in our image, after our likeness; and it was so.

28 And I, God, said, Let
them have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and over the fowl of
the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every
creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

29 And I, God, created
man in mine own image, in the image of mine Only Begotten created I
him; male and female created I them.

30 And I, God, blessed
them and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the
earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and
over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth
upon the earth.

31 And I, God, said unto
man, Behold, I have given you every herb, bearing seed, which is upon
the face of all the earth; and every tree in the which shall be the
fruit of a tree, yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

32 And to every beast of
the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to everything that
creepeth upon the earth, wherein I grant life, there shall be given
every clean herb for meat; and it was so, even as I spake.

33 And I, God, saw
everything that I had made, and behold, all things which I had made
were very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

GENESIS
2

1 Thus the heaven and the
earth were finished, and all the host of them.

2 And on the seventh day,
I, God, ended my work, and all things which I had made; and I rested
on the seventh day from all my work; and all things which I had made
were finished. And I, God, saw that they were good.

3 And I, God, blessed the
seventh day, and sanctified it, because that in it I had rested from
all my work, which I, God, had created and made.

4 And now, behold, I say
unto you, that these are the generations of the heaven, and of the
earth, when they were created in the day that I the Lord God made the
heaven and the earth, and every plant of the field before it was in
the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew;

5 For I, the Lord God,
created all things of which I have spoken spiritually, before they
were naturally upon the face of the earth; for I, the Lord God, had
not caused it to rain upon the face of the earth.

6 And I, the Lord God,
had created all the children of men, and not yet a man to till the
ground, for in heaven created I them, and there was not yet flesh
upon the earth, neither in the water, neither in the air;

7 But I, the Lord God,
spake, and there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole
face of the ground.

8 And I, the Lord God,
formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his
nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul; the first
flesh upon the earth, the first man also;

9 Nevertheless, all
things were before created, but spiritually were they created and
made, according to my word.

10 And I, the Lord God,
planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there I put the man whom I had
formed.

11 And out of the ground,
made I, the Lord God, to grow every tree naturally, that is pleasant
to the sight of man, and man could behold it, and it became also a
living soul; for it was spiritual in the day that I created it; for
it remaineth in the sphere in which I, God, created it; yea, even all
things which I prepared for the use of man; and man saw that it was
good for food.

12 And I, the Lord God,
planted the tree of life also, in the midst of the garden; and also
the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

13 And I, the Lord God,
caused a river to go out of Eden, to water the garden; and from
thence it was parted, and became into four heads.

14 And I, the Lord God,
called the name of the first Pison, and it compasseth the whole land
of Havilah, where I, the Lord, created much gold; and the gold of
that land was good, and there was bdellium, and the onyx stone.

15 And the name of the
second river was called Gihon, the same that compasseth the whole
land of Ethiopia.

16 And the name of the
third river was Hiddekel, that which goeth toward the east of
Assyria.

17 And the fourth river
was Euphrates.

18 And I, the Lord God,
took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden, to dress it, and
to keep it.

19 And I, the Lord God,
commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest
freely eat;

20 But of the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it;

21 Nevertheless, thou
mayest choose for thyself, for it is given unto thee; but remember
that I forbid it;

22 For in the day thou
eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

23 And I, the Lord God,
said unto mine Only Begotten, that it was not good that the man
should be alone;

24 Wherefore, I will make
an help meet for him.

25 And out of the ground,
I the Lord God, formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of
the air; and commanded that they should come unto Adam, to see what
he would call them.

26 And they were also
living souls; for I, God, breathed into them the breath of life, and
commanded that whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that
should be the name thereof.

27 And Adam gave names to
all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the
field; but as for Adam, there was not found an help meet for him.

28 And I, the Lord God,
caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept, and I took one
of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in the stead thereof; and the
rib, which I, the Lord God had taken from man, made I a woman, and
brought her unto the man.

29 And Adam said, This I
know now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She shall be
called woman, because she was taken out of man.

30 Therefore shall a man
leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife; and
they shall be one flesh.

31 And they were both
naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

GENESIS
3

1 And I, the Lord God,
spake unto Moses, saying, That Satan whom thou hast commanded in the
name of mine Only Begotten, is the same which was from the beginning;

2 And he came before me,
saying, Behold I, send me, I will be thy Son, and I will redeem all
mankind, that one soul shall not be lost, and surely I will do it;
wherefore, give me thine honor.

3 But behold, my beloved
Son, which was my beloved and chosen from the beginning, said unto
me: Father, thy will be done, and the glory be thine forever.

4 Wherefore, because that
Satan rebelled against me, and sought to destroy the agency of man,
which I, the Lord God, had given him; and also that I should give
unto him mine own power; by the power of mine Only Begotten I caused
that he should be cast down; and he became Satan.

5 Yea, even the devil,
the father of all lies, to deceive, and to blind men, and to lead
them captive at his will, even as many as would not hearken unto my
voice.

6 And now, the serpent
was more subtle than any beast of the field, which I, the Lord God,
had made.

7 And Satan put it into
the heart of the serpent, for he had drawn away many after him; and
he sought also to beguile Eve, for he knew not the mind of God;
wherefore, he sought to destroy the world.

8 And he said unto the
woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the
garden. And he spake by the mouth of the serpent.

9 And the woman said unto
the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden; but
of the fruit of the tree which thou beholdest in the midst of the
garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch
it, lest ye die.

10 And the serpent said
unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die; for God doth know, that in
the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall
be as gods, knowing good and evil.

11 And when the woman saw
that the tree was good for food, and that it became pleasant to the
eyes, and a tree to be desired to make her wise, she took of the
fruit thereof, and did eat; and gave also unto her husband with her,
and he did eat.

12 And the eyes of them
both were opened, and they knew that they had been naked; and they
sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

13 And they heard the
voice of the Lord God, as they were walking in the garden, in the
cool of the day.

14 And Adam and his wife
went to hide themselves from the presence of the Lord God, amongst
the trees of the garden.

15 And I, the Lord God,
called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where goest thou? And he said, I
heard thy voice, in the garden, and I was afraid, because I beheld
that I was naked, and I hid myself.

16 And I, the Lord God,
said unto Adam, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten
of the tree whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat, if
so thou shouldst surely die?

17 And the man said, The
woman whom thou gavest me, and commanded that she should remain with
me, she gave me of the fruit of the tree, and I did eat.

18 And I, the Lord God,
said unto the woman, What is this thing which thou hast done?

19 And the woman said,
The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

20 And I, the Lord God,
said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou shalt be
cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy
belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy
life;

21 And I will put enmity
between thee and the woman; between thy seed and her seed; and he
shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

22 Unto the woman, I, the
Lord God, said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow, and thy
conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children, and thy desire
shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

23 And unto Adam, I, the
Lord God, said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy
wife, and hast eaten of the fruit of the tree, of which I commanded
thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it, cursed shall be the ground
for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy
life;

24 Thorns also and
thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of
the field;

25 By the sweat of thy
face shalt thou eat bread, until thou shalt return unto the ground,
for thou shalt surely die; for out of it wast thou taken, for dust
thou wast, and unto dust shalt thou return.

26 And Adam called his
wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living; for thus
have I, the Lord God, called the first of all women, which are many.

27 Unto Adam, and also
unto his wife, did I, the Lord God, make coats of skins, and clothed
them.

28 And I, the Lord God,
said unto mine Only Begotten, Behold, the man is become as one of us,
to know good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and
partake also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever;

29 Therefore, I, the Lord
God, will send him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground
from whence he was taken;

30 For, as I, the Lord
God, liveth, even so my words cannot return void, for, as they go
forth out of my mouth, they must be fulfilled.

31 So I drove out the
man, and I placed at the east of the garden of Eden, cherubim, and a
flaming sword, which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of
life.

32 (And these are the
words which I spake unto my servant Moses. And they are true, even as
I will.

33 And I have spoken them
unto you. See thou show them unto no man, until I command you, except
they that believe.) Amen.

GENESIS
4

1 And it came to pass,
that after I, the Lord God, had driven them out, that Adam began to
till the earth, and to have dominion over all the beasts of the
field, and to eat his bread by the sweat of his brow, as I, the Lord
had commanded him, and Eve also, his wife, did labor with him.

2 And Adam knew his wife,
and she bare unto him sons and daughters, and they began to multiply,
and to replenish the earth.

3 And from that time
forth, the sons and daughters of Adam began to divide, two and two,
in the land, and to till the land, and to tend flocks; and they also
begat sons and daughters.

4 And Adam called upon
the name of the Lord, and Eve also, his wife; and they heard the
voice of the Lord, from the way towards the garden of Eden, speaking
unto them, and they saw him not; for they were shut out from his
presence.

5 And he gave unto them
commandments, that they should worship the Lord their God; and should
offer the firstlings of their flocks for an offering unto the Lord.

6 And Adam was obedient
unto the commandments of the Lord. And after many days, an angel of
the Lord appeared unto Adam, saying, Why dost thou offer sacrifices
unto the Lord? And Adam said unto him, I know not, save the Lord
commanded me.

7 And then the angel
spake, saying, This thing is a similitude of the sacrifice of the
Only Begotten of the Father, which is full of grace and truth;

8 Wherefore, thou shalt
do all that thou doest, in the name of the Son. And thou shalt
repent, and call upon God, in the name of the Son for evermore.

9 And in that day, the
Holy Ghost fell upon Adam, which beareth record of the Father and the
Son, saying, I am the Only Begotten of the Father from the beginning,
henceforth and forever; that, as thou hast fallen, thou mayest be
redeemed, and all mankind, even as many as will.

10 And in that day Adam
blessed God, and was filled, and began to prophesy concerning all the
families of the earth; saying, Blessed be the name of God, for,
because of my transgression my eyes are opened, and in this life I
shall have joy, and again, in the flesh I shall see God.

11 And Eve, his wife,
heard all these things and was glad, saying, Were it not for our
transgression, we never should have had seed, and never should have
known good and evil, and the joy of our redemption, and the eternal
life which God giveth unto all the obedient.

12 And Adam and Eve
blessed the name of God; and they made all things known unto their
sons and their daughters.

13 And Satan came among
them, saying, I am also a son of God, and he commanded them, saying,
Believe it not. And they believed it not; and they loved Satan more
than God. And men began from that time forth to be carnal, sensual
and devilish.

GENESIS
5

1 And the Lord God called
upon men, by the Holy Ghost, everywhere, and commanded them that they
should repent;

2 And as many as believed
in the Son, and repented of their sins, should be saved. And as many
as believed not, and repented not, should be damned. And the words
went forth out of the mouth of God, in a firm decree, wherefore they
must be fulfilled.

3 And Adam ceased not to
call upon God; and Eve also his wife.

4 And Adam knew Eve his
wife, and she conceived and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man
from the Lord; wherefore he may not reject his words. But, behold,
also Cain hearkened not saying, Who is the Lord, that I should know
him?

5 And she again
conceived, and bare his brother Abel. And Abel hearkened unto the
voice of the Lord. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a
tiller of the ground.

6 And Cain loved Satan
more than God. And Satan commanded him, saying, Make an offering unto
the Lord. And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought
of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord.

7 And Abel, he also
brought, of the firstlings of his flock, and of the fat thereof; and
the Lord had respect unto Abel, and to his offering, but unto Cain,
and to his offering, he had not respect.

8 Now Satan knew this,
and it pleased him. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance
fell.

9 And the Lord said unto
Cain, Why art thou wroth? Why is thy countenance fallen? If thou
doest well thou shalt be accepted, and if thou doest not well, sin
lieth at the door; and Satan desireth to have thee, and except thou
shalt hearken unto my commandments, I will deliver thee up, and it
shall be unto thee according to his desire; and thou shalt rule over
him, for from this time forth thou shalt be the father of his lies.

10 Thou shalt be called
Perdition, for thou wast also before the world, and it shall be said
in time to come, that these abominations were had from Cain, for he
rejected the greater counsel, which was had from God; and this is a
cursing which I will put upon thee, except thou repent.

11 And Cain was wroth,
and listened not any more to the voice of the Lord, neither to Abel
his brother, who walked in holiness before the Lord.

12 And Adam also, and his
wife, mourned before the Lord, because of Cain and his brethren.

13 And it came to pass,
that Cain took one of his brother's daughters to wife, and they loved
Satan more than God.

14 And Satan said unto
Cain, Swear unto me by thy throat, and if thou tell it thou shalt
die; and swear thy brethren by their heads, and by the living God,
that they tell it not; for if they tell it they shall surely die; and
this that thy father may not know it; and this day I will deliver thy
brother Abel into thine hands.

15 And Satan swear unto
Cain, that he would do according to his commands. And all these
things were done in secret.

16 And Cain said, Truly I
am Mahan, the master of this great secret, that I may murder and get
gain. Wherefore Cain was called Master Mahan; and he gloried in his
wickedness.

17 And Cain went into the
field, and Cain talked with Abel his brother; and it came to pass,
that while they were in the field, Cain rose up against Abel his
brother, and slew him.

18 And Cain gloried in
that which he had done, saying, I am free; surely the flocks of my
brother falleth into my hands.

19 And the Lord said unto
Cain, Where is Abel, thy brother? And he said, I know not, am I my
brother's keeper?

20 And the Lord said,
What hast thou done? The voice of thy brother's blood cries unto me
from the ground.

21 And now, thou shalt be
cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy
brother's blood from thy hand.

22 When thou tillest the
ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a
fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.

23 And Cain said unto the
Lord, Satan tempted me, because of my brother's flock; and I was
wroth also, for his offering thou didst accept, and not mine.

24 My punishment is
greater than I can bear. Behold, thou hast driven me out this day
from the face of the Lord, and from thy face shall I be hid; and I
shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to
pass, that he that findeth me shall slay me, because of mine
iniquities, for these things are not hid from the Lord.

25 And I, the Lord, said
unto him, Whosoever slayeth thee, vengeance shall be taken on him
sevenfold; and I, the Lord, set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding
him should kill him.

26 And Cain was shut out
from the presence of the Lord, and with his wife and many of his
brethren, dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.

27 And Cain knew his
wife, and she conceived and bare Enoch, and he also begat many sons
and daughters. And he builded a city, and he called the name of the
city after the name of his son Enoch.

28 And unto Enoch was
born Irad, and other sons and daughters, and Irad begat Mehujael, and
other sons and daughters.

29 And Mehujael begat
Methusael, and other sons and daughters. And Methusael begat Lamech.

30 And Lamech took unto
himself two wives, the name of one being Adah, and the name of the
other, Zillah.

31 And Adah bare Jabal;
he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and they were keepers of
cattle; and his brother's name was Jubal, who was the father of all
such as handle the harp and organ.

32 And Zillah, she also
bare Tubal Cain, an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron;
and the sister of Tubal Cain was called Naamah.

33 And Lamech said unto
his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice, ye wives of Lamech;
hearken unto my speech, for I have slain a man to my wounding, and a
young man to my hurt.

35 For, Lamech having
entered into a covenant with Satan, after the manner of Cain, wherein
he became Master Mahan, master of that great secret which was
administered unto Cain by Satan;

36 And Irad, the son of
Enoch, having known their secret, began to reveal it unto the sons of
Adam; wherefore, Lamech, being angry, slew him, not like unto Cain
his brother Abel for the sake of getting gain; but he slew him for
the oath's sake;

37 For, from the days of
Cain, there was a secret combination, and their works were in the
dark, and they knew every man his brother.

38 Wherefore the Lord
cursed Lamech and his house, and all they that had covenanted with
Satan; for they kept not the commandments of God. And it displeased
God, and he ministered not unto them.

39 And their works were
abominations, and began to spread among all the sons of men. And it
was among the sons of men.

40 And among the
daughters of men, these things were not spoken; because that Lamech
had spoken the secret unto his wives, and they rebelled against him,
and declared these things abroad, and had not compassion.

41 Wherefore Lamech was
despised, and cast out, and came not among the sons of men, lest he
should die.

42 And thus the works of
darkness began to prevail among all the sons of men.

43 And God cursed the
earth with a sore curse, and was angry with the wicked, with all the
sons of men whom he had made, for they would not hearken unto his
voice, nor believe on his Only Begotten Son, even him whom he
declared should come in the meridian of time; who was prepared from
before the foundation of the world.

44 And thus the gospel
began to be preached from the beginning, being declared by holy
angels, sent forth from the presence of God; and by his own voice,
and by the gift of the Holy Ghost.

45 And thus all things
were confirmed unto Adam by an holy ordinance; and the gospel
preached; and a decree sent forth that it should be in the world
until the end thereof; and thus it was. Amen.

GENESIS
6

1 And Adam hearkened unto
the voice of God, and called upon his sons to repent.

2 And Adam knew his wife
again, and she bare a son, and he called his name Seth.

3 And Adam glorified the
name of God, for he said, God hath appointed me another seed instead
of Abel whom Cain slew.

4 And God revealed
himself unto Seth, and he rebelled not, but offered an acceptable
sacrifice like unto his brother Abel. And to him also was born a son,
and he called his name Enos.

5 And then began these
men to call upon the name of the Lord; and the Lord blessed them; and
a book of remembrance was kept in the which was recorded in the
language of Adam, for it was given unto as many as called upon God,
to write by the Spirit of inspiration;

6 And by them their
children were taught to read and write, having a language which was
pure and undefiled.

7 Now this same
priesthood which was in the beginning, shall be in the end of the
world also.

8 Now this prophecy Adam
spake, as he was moved upon by the Holy Ghost.

9 And a genealogy was
kept of the children of God. And this was the book of the generations
of Adam, saying, In the day that God created man, (in the likeness of
God made he him,) in the image of his own body, male and female
created he them, and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the
day when they were created, and became living souls, in the land,
upon the footstool of God.

10 And Adam lived one
hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after
his own image, and called his name Seth.

11 And the days of Adam,
after he had begotten Seth, were eight hundred years. And he begat
many sons and daughters. And all the days that Adam lived, were nine
hundred and thirty years; and he died.

12 Seth lived one hundred
and five years, and begat Enos, and prophesied in all his days, and
taught his son Enos in the ways of God. Wherefore Enos prophesied
also. And Seth lived after he begat Enos, eight hundred and seven
years, and begat many sons and daughters.

13 And the children of
men were numerous upon all the face of the land. And in those days,
Satan had great dominion among men, and raged in their hearts; and
from thenceforth came wars and bloodshed.

14 And a man's hand was
against his own brother in administering death, because of secret
works, seeking for power. And all the days of Seth were nine hundred
and twelve years; and he died.

15 And Enos lived ninety
years, and begat Cainan. And Enos, and the residue of the people of
God, came out from the land which was called Shulon, and dwelt in a
land of promise, which he called after his own son, whom he had named
Cainan.

16 And Enos lived, after
he begat Cainan, eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat many sons
and daughters. And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five
years; and he died.

17 And Cainan lived
seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel.

18 And Cainan lived after
he begat Mahalaleel, eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons
and daughters. And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten
years; and he died.

19 And Mahalaleel lived
sixty-five years, and begat Jared.

20 And Mahalaleel lived
after he begat Jared, eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons
and daughters. And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred and
ninety-five years; and he died.

21 And Jared lived one
hundred and sixty-two years, and begat Enoch.

22 And Jared lived, after
he begat Enoch, eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.
And Jared taught Enoch in all the ways of God.

23 And this is the
genealogy of the sons of Adam, who was the son of God, with whom God
himself conversed.

24 And they were
preachers of righteousness, and spake and prophesied, and called upon
all men everywhere to repent. And faith was taught unto the children
of men.

25 And it came to pass,
that all the days of Jared were nine hundred and sixty-two years; and
he died.

26 And Enoch lived
sixty-five years, and begat Methuselah. And it came to pass that
Enoch journeyed in the land, among the people; and as he journeyed
the Spirit of God descended out of heaven, and abode upon him;

27 And he heard a voice
from heaven, saying, Enoch, my son, prophesy unto this people, and
say unto them, Repent, for thus saith the Lord, I am angry with this
people, and my fierce anger is kindled against them; for their hearts
have waxed hard, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes
cannot see afar off.

28 And for these many
generations, even since the day that I created them, have they gone
astray, and have denied me, and have sought their own counsels in the
dark; and in their own abominations have they devised murder, and
have not kept the commandments which I gave unto their father Adam.

29 Wherefore, they have
forsworn themselves, and by their oaths they have brought upon
themselves death.

30 And an hell I have
prepared for them, if they repent not;

31 And this is a decree
which I have sent forth in the beginning of the world, from mine own
mouth, from the foundation thereof; and by the mouths of my servants,
thy fathers, have I decreed it; even as it shall be sent forth in the
world, unto the end thereof.

32 And when Enoch had
heard these words, he bowed himself to the earth, before the Lord,
and spake before the Lord, saying, Why is it that I have found favor
in thy sight, and am but a lad, and all the people hate me, for I am
slow of speech; wherefore am I thy servant?

33 And the Lord said unto
Enoch, Go forth, and do as I have commanded thee, and no man shall
pierce thee.

34 Open thy mouth, and it
shall be filled, and I will give thee utterance; for all flesh is in
my hands, and I will do as seemeth me good.

35 Say unto this people,
choose ye this day to serve the Lord God who made you.

36 Behold, my Spirit is
upon you; wherefore all thy words will I justify, and the mountains
shall flee before you, and the rivers shall turn from their course;
and thou shalt abide in me, and I in you; therefore walk with me.

37 And the Lord spake
unto Enoch, and said unto him, Anoint thine eyes with clay, and wash
them, and thou shalt see; and he did so.

38 And he beheld the
spirits that God had created, and he beheld also things which were
not visible to the natural eye; and from thenceforth came the saying
abroad in the land, A seer hath the Lord raised up unto his people.

39 And it came to pass,
that Enoch went forth in the land, among the people, standing upon
the hills, and the high places, and cried with a loud voice,
testifying against their works.

40 And all men were
offended because of him; and they came forth to hear him upon the
high places, saying unto the tent-keepers, Tarry ye here and keep the
tents while we go yonder to behold the seer, for he prophesieth; and
there is a strange thing in the land, a wild man hath come among us.

41 And it came to pass
when they heard him, no man laid hands on him, for fear came on them
all that heard him, for he walked with God.

42 And there came a man
unto him, whose name was Mahijah, and said unto him, Tell us plainly
who thou art, and from whence thou comest.

43 And he said unto them,
I came out from the land of Cainan, the land of my fathers, a land of
righteousness unto this day; and my father taught me in all the ways
of God.

44 And it came to pass,
as I journeyed from the land of Cainan by the sea east, I beheld a
vision; and lo, the heavens I saw, and the Lord spake with me, and
gave me commandment; wherefore for this cause, to keep the
commandment, I speak forth these words.

45 And Enoch continued
his speech, saying, The Lord which spake with me, the same is the God
of heaven, and he is my God and your God, and ye are my brethren; and
why counsel ye yourselves, and deny the God of heaven?

46 The heavens he made;
the earth is his footstool, and the foundation thereof is his;
behold, he laid it, and hosts of men hath he brought in upon the face
thereof.

47 And death hath come
upon our fathers; nevertheless, we know them, and cannot deny, and
even the first of all we know, even Adam; for a book of remembrance
we have written among us, according to the pattern given by the
finger of God; and it is given in our own language.

48 And as Enoch spake
forth the words of God, the people trembled and could not stand in
his presence.

49 And he said unto them,
Because that Adam fell, we are; and by his fall came death, and we
are made partakers of misery and woe.

50 Behold, Satan hath
come among the children of men, and tempteth them to worship him; and
men have become carnal, sensual, and devilish, and are shut out from
the presence of God.

51 But God hath made
known unto our fathers, that all men must repent.

52 And he called upon our
father Adam, by his own voice, saying, I am God; I made the world,
and men before they were in the flesh.

53 And he also said unto
him, If thou wilt, turn unto me and hearken unto my voice, and
believe, and repent of all thy transgressions, and be baptized, even
in water, in the name of mine Only Begotten Son, who is full of grace
and truth, which is Jesus Christ, the only name which shall be given
under heaven, whereby salvation shall come unto the children of men;
and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost, asking all things in
his name, and whatsoever ye shall ask it shall be given you.

54 And our father Adam
spake unto the Lord, and said, Why is it that men must repent, and be
baptized in water?

55 And the Lord said unto
Adam, Behold, I have forgiven thee thy transgression in the garden of
Eden.

56 Hence came the saying
abroad among the people, that the Son of God hath atoned for original
guilt, wherein the sins of the parents cannot be answered upon the
heads of the children, for they are whole from the foundation of the
world.

57 And the Lord spake
unto Adam, saying, Inasmuch as thy children are conceived in sin,
even so, when they begin to grow up sin conceiveth in their hearts,
and they taste the bitter, that they may know to prize the good.

58 And it is given unto
them to know good from evil; wherefore, they are agents unto
themselves.

59 And I have given unto
you another law and commandment; wherefore teach it unto your
children, that all men, everywhere, must repent, or they can in no
wise inherit the kingdom of God.

60 For no unclean thing
can dwell there, or dwell in his presence; for, in the language of
Adam, Man of Holiness is his name; and the name of his Only Begotten
is the son of Man, even Jesus Christ, a righteous judge, who shall
come in the meridian of time.

61 Therefore I give unto
you a commandment, to teach these things freely unto your children,
saying, that by reason of transgression cometh the fall, which fall
bringeth death; and inasmuch as ye were born into the world by water
and blood, and the spirit, which I have made, and so become of dust a
living soul;

62 Even so ye must be
born again, into the kingdom of heaven, of water, and of the Spirit,
and be cleansed by blood, even the blood of mine Only Begotten; that
ye may be sanctified from all sin; and enjoy the words of eternal
life in this world, and eternal life in the world to come; even
immortal glory.

63 For, by the water ye
keep the commandment; by the Spirit ye are justified; and by the
blood ye are sanctified.

64 Therefore it is given
to abide in you, the record of heaven, the Comforter, the peaceable
things of immortal glory, the truth of all things, that which
quickeneth all things which maketh alive all things, that which
knoweth all things, and hath all power according to wisdom, mercy,
truth, justice and judgment.

65 And now, behold, I say
unto you, This is the plan of salvation unto all men, through the
blood of mine Only Begotten, who shall come in the meridian of time.

66 And, behold, all
things have their likeness; and all things are created and made to
bear record of me; both things which are temporal, and things which
are spiritual; things which are in the heavens above, and things
which are on the earth, and things which are in the earth, and things
which are under the earth, both above and beneath, all things bear
record of me.

67 And it came to pass,
when the Lord had spoken with Adam our father, that Adam cried unto
the Lord, and he was caught away by the Spirit of the Lord, and was
carried down into the water, and was laid under the water, and was
brought forth out of the water; and thus he was baptized.

68 And the Spirit of God
descended upon him, and thus he was born of the Spirit, and became
quickened in the inner man.

69 And he heard a voice
out of heaven, saying, Thou art baptized with fire and with the Holy
Ghost; this is the record of the Father and the Son, from henceforth
and forever;

70 And thou art after the
order of him who was without beginning of days or end of years, from
all eternity to all eternity.

71 Behold, thou art one
in me, a son of God; and thus may all become my sons. Amen.

GENESIS
7

1 And it came to pass,
that Enoch continued his speech, saying, Behold, our father Adam
taught these things, and many have believed, and become the sons of
God; and many have believed not, and have perished in their sins, and
are looking forth with fear, in torment, for the fiery indignation of
the wrath of God to be poured out upon them.

2 And from that time
forth, Enoch began to prophesy, saying unto the people, that, as I
was journeying, and stood in the place Mahujah, and cried unto the
Lord, there came a voice out of heaven, saying, Turn ye and get ye
upon the mount Simeon.

3 And it came to pass,
that I turned and went up on the mount; and as I stood upon the
mount, I beheld the heavens open, and I was clothed upon with glory.

4 And I saw the Lord, and
he stood before my face, and he talked with me, even as a man talketh
one with another, face to face; and he said unto me, Look, and I will
show unto thee the world for the space of many generations.

5 And it came to pass,
that I beheld in the valley of Shum, and, lo! a great people which
dwelt in tents, which were the people of Shum.

6 And again the Lord said
unto me, Look, and I looked towards the north, and I beheld the
people of Cainan, which dwelt in tents.

7 And the Lord said unto
me, Prophesy; and I prophesied saying,

8 Behold, the people of
Cainan which are numerous, shall go forth in battle array against the
people of Shum, and shall slay them, that they shall be utterly
destroyed.

9 And the people of
Cainan shall divide themselves in the land, and the land shall be
barren and unfruitful, and none other people shall dwell there, but
the people of Cainan; for, behold, the Lord shall curse the land with
much heat, and the barrenness thereof shall go forth forever.

10 And there was a
blackness came upon all the children of Cainan, that they were
despised among all people.

11 And it came to pass,
that the Lord said unto me, Look, and I looked, and I beheld the land
of Sharon, and the land of Enoch, and the land of Omner, and the land
of Heni, and the land of Shem, and the land of Haner, and the land of
Hanannihah, and all the inhabitants thereof.

12 And the Lord said unto
me, Go forth to this people, and say unto them, Repent; lest I come
out and smite them with a curse, and they die.

13 And he gave unto me a
commandment, that I should baptize in the name of the Father, and of
the Son, who is full of grace and truth, and the Holy Ghost which
beareth record of the Father and the Son.

14 And it came to pass,
that Enoch continued to call upon all the people, save it were the
people of Cainan, to repent.

15 And so great was the
faith of Enoch, that he led the people of God, and their enemies came
to battle against them, and he spake the word of the Lord, and the
earth trembled, and the mountains fled, even according to his
command.

16 And the rivers of
water were turned out of their course, and the roar of the lions was
heard out of the wilderness.

17 And all nations feared
greatly, so powerful was the word of Enoch, and so great was the
power of the language which God had given him.

18 There also came up a
land out of the depths of the sea; and so great was the fear of the
enemies of the people of God, that they fled and stood afar off, and
went upon the land which came up out of the depths of the sea.

19 And the giants of the
land also stood afar off; and there went forth a curse upon all the
people which fought against God.

20 And from that time
forth, there were wars, and bloodshed among them; but the Lord came
and dwelt with his people, and they dwelt in righteousness.

21 And the fear of the
Lord was upon all nations, so great was the glory of the Lord which
was upon his people.

22 And the Lord blessed
the land, and they were blessed upon the mountains, and upon the high
places, and did flourish.

23 And the Lord called
his people, Zion, because they were of one heart and of one mind, and
dwelt in righteousness; and there were no poor among them.

24 And Enoch continued
his preaching in righteousness unto the people of God.

25 And it came to pass in
his days, that he built a city that was called the city of Holiness,
even Zion.

26 And it came to pass,
that Enoch talked with the Lord, and he said unto the Lord, Surely,
Zion shall dwell in safety forever. But the Lord said unto Enoch,
Zion have I blessed, but the residue of the people have I cursed.

27 And it came to pass,
that the Lord showed unto Enoch all the inhabitants of the earth, and
he beheld, and lo! Zion in process of time was taken up into heaven.

28 And the Lord said unto
Enoch, Behold mine abode forever.

29 And Enoch also beheld
the residue of the people which were the sons of Adam, and they were
a mixture of all the seed of Adam, save it were the seed of Cain; for
the seed of Cain were black, and had not place among them.

30 And after that Zion
was taken up into heaven, Enoch beheld, and lo, all the nations of
the earth were before him; and there came generation upon generation.

31 And Enoch was high and
lifted up, even in the bosom of the Father and the Son of Man; and,
behold, the powers of Satan were upon all the face of the earth; and
he saw angels descending out of heaven, and he heard a loud voice,
saying, Woe! woe! be unto the inhabitants of the earth!

32 And he beheld Satan,
and he had a great chain in his hand, and it veiled the whole face of
the earth with darkness; and he looked up and laughed, and his angels
rejoiced.

33 And Enoch beheld
angels descending out of heaven, bearing testimony of the Father, and
of the Son.

34 And the Holy Ghost
fell on many, and they were caught up by the powers of heaven into
Zion.

35 And it came to pass,
that the God of heaven looked upon the residue of the people, and
wept; and Enoch bore record of it, saying, How is it that the heavens
weep, and shed forth their tears as the rain upon the mountains? And
Enoch said unto the Lord, How is it that thou canst weep, seeing thou
art holy, and from all eternity to all eternity?

36 And were it possible
that man could number the particles of the earth, yea, and millions
of earths like this, it would not be a beginning to the number of thy
creations;

38 Thou hast taken Zion
to thine own bosom, from all thy creations, from all eternity to all
eternity; and naught but peace, justice, and truth is the habitation
of thy throne; and mercy shall go before thy face and have no end.
How is it that thou canst weep?

39 The Lord said unto
Enoch, Behold, these thy brethren, they are the workmanship of mine
own hands, and I gave unto them their intelligence in the day that I
created them.

40 And in the garden of
Eden gave I unto man his agency; and unto thy brethren have I said,
and also gave commandment, that they should love one another; and
that they should choose me their Father.

41 But, behold, they are
without affection, and they hate their own blood; and the fire of
mine indignation is kindled against them; and in my hot displeasure
will I send in the floods upon them; for my fierce anger is kindled
against them.

42 Behold, I am God; Man
of Holiness is my name; Man of Counsel is my name; and Endless and
Eternal is my name also. Wherefore I can stretch forth my hands and
hold all the creations which I have made, and mine eye can pierce
them also.

43 And among all the
workmanship of my hands there has not been so great wickedness as
among thy brethren; but, behold, their sins shall be upon the heads
of their fathers; Satan shall be their father, and misery shall be
their doom; and the whole heavens shall weep over them, even all the
workmanship of my hands.

44 Wherefore should not
the heavens weep, seeing these shall suffer? But, behold, these which
thine eyes are upon shall perish in the floods; and, behold, I will
shut them up; a prison have I prepared for them, and he whom I have
chosen hath pleaded before my face;

45 Wherefore he suffereth
for their sins, inasmuch as they will repent, in the day that my
chosen shall return unto me; and until that day they shall be in
torment.

46 Wherefore for this
shall the heavens weep, yea, and all the workmanship of my hands.

47 And it came to pass,
that the Lord spake unto Enoch, and told Enoch all the doings of the
children of men.

48 Wherefore Enoch knew
and looked upon their wickedness, and their misery; and wept, and
stretched forth his arms, and his heart swelled wide as eternity, and
his bowels yearned, and all eternity shook.

49 And Enoch saw Noah
also, and his family, that the posterity of all the sons of Noah
should be saved with a temporal salvation.

50 Wherefore Enoch saw
that Noah built an ark, and the Lord smiled upon it, and held it in
his own hand; but upon the residue of the wicked came the floods and
swallowed them up.

51 And as Enoch saw thus,
he had bitterness of soul, and wept over his brethren, and said unto
the heavens, I will refuse to be comforted.

52 But the Lord said unto
Enoch, Lift up your heart and be glad, and look. And it came to pass,
that Enoch looked, and from Noah he beheld all the families of the
earth, and he cried unto the Lord, saying, When shall the day of the
Lord come? When shall the blood of the righteous be shed, that all
they that mourn may be sanctified, and have eternal life?

53 And the Lord said, It
shall be in the meridian of time; in the days of wickedness and
vengeance.

54 And, behold, Enoch saw
the day of the coming of the Son of Man, even in the flesh; and his
soul rejoiced, saying, The righteous is lifted up; and the Lamb is
slain from the foundation of the world; and through faith I am in the
bosom of the Father; and behold, Zion is with me!

55 And it came to pass,
that Enoch looked upon the earth, and he heard a voice from the
bowels thereof, saying, Woe! woe! is me, the mother of men! I am
pained, I am weary, because of the wickedness of my children! When
shall I rest, and be cleansed from the filthiness which has gone
forth out of me? When will my Creator sanctify me, that I may rest,
and righteousness for a season abide upon my face?

56 And when Enoch heard
the earth mourn, he wept, and cried unto the Lord, saying, O Lord,
wilt thou not have compassion upon the earth? wilt thou not bless the
children of Noah?

57 And it came to pass,
that Enoch continued his cry unto the Lord, saying, I ask thee, O
Lord, in the name of thine Only Begotten, even Jesus Christ, that
thou wilt have mercy upon Noah, and his seed, that the earth might
never more be covered by the floods.

58 And the Lord could not
withhold; and he covenanted with Enoch, and sware unto him with an
oath, that he would stay the floods; that he would call upon the
children of Noah; and he sent forth an unalterable decree, that a
remnant of his seed should always be found among all nations, while
the earth should stand.

59 And the Lord said,
Blessed is he through whose seed Messiah shall come; for he saith, I
am Messiah, the King of Zion, the Rock of heaven, which is broad as
eternity; and whoso cometh in at the gate, and climbeth up by me
shall never fall.

60 Wherefore blessed are
they of whom I have spoken, for they shall come forth with songs of
everlasting joy.

61 And it came to pass,
that Enoch cried unto the Lord, saying, When the Son of Man cometh in
the flesh shall the earth rest? I pray thee show me these things.

62 And the Lord said unto
Enoch, Look; and he looked, and beheld the Son of Man lifted up on
the cross, after the manner of men.

63 And he heard a loud
voice, and the heavens were veiled; and all the creations of God
mourned, and the earth groaned; and the rocks were rent; and the
saints arose, and were crowned at the right hand of the Son of Man,
with crowns of glory.

64 And as many of the
spirits as were in prison came forth and stood on the right hand of
God. And the remainder were reserved in chains of darkness until the
judgment of the great day.

65 And again Enoch wept,
and cried unto the Lord, saying, When shall the earth rest?

66 And Enoch beheld the
Son of Man ascend up unto the Father; and he called unto the Lord,
saying, Wilt thou not come again upon the earth? for inasmuch as thou
art God, and I know thee, and thou hast sworn unto me, and commanded
me that I should ask in the name of thine Only Begotten; thou hast
made me, and given unto me a right to thy throne, and not of myself,
but through thine own grace; and wherefore I ask thee if thou wilt
not come again on the earth?

67 And the Lord said unto
Enoch, As I live, even so will I come in the last days, in the days
of wickedness and vengeance, to fulfill the oath which I made unto
you concerning the children of Noah.

68 And the day shall come
that the earth shall rest. But before that day the heavens shall be
darkened, and a veil of darkness shall cover the earth; and the
heavens shall shake, and also the earth.

69 And great tribulations
shall be among the children of men, but my people will I preserve;
and righteousness will I send down out of heaven, and truth will I
send forth out of the earth, to bear testimony of mine Only Begotten;
his resurrection from the dead; yea, and also the resurrection of all
men.

70 And righteousness and
truth will I cause to sweep the earth as with a flood, to gather out
mine own elect from the four quarters of the earth, unto a place
which I shall prepare; an holy city, that my people may gird up their
loins, and be looking forth for the time of my coming; for there
shall be my tabernacle, and it shall be called Zion; a New Jerusalem.

71 And the Lord said unto
Enoch, Then shalt thou and all thy city meet them there; and we will
receive them into our bosom; and they shall see us, and we will fall
upon their necks, and they shall fall upon our necks, and we will
kiss each other;

72 And there shall be
mine abode, and it shall be Zion, which shall come forth out of all
the creations which I have made; and for the space of a thousand
years shall the earth rest.

73 And it came to pass,
that Enoch saw the day of the coming of the Son of Man, in the last
days, to dwell on the earth, in righteousness, for the space of a
thousand years.

74 But before that day,
he saw great tribulation among the wicked; and he also saw the sea,
that it was troubled, and men's hearts failing them, looking forth
with fear for the judgment of the Almighty God, which should come
upon the wicked.

75 And the Lord showed
Enoch all things, even unto the end of the world. And he saw the day
of the righteous, the hour of their redemption, and received a
fullness of joy.

76 And all the days of
Zion, in the days of Enoch, were three hundred and sixty-five years.

77 And Enoch and all his
people walked with God, and he dwelt in the midst of Zion.

78 And it came to pass,
that Zion was not, for God received it up into his own bosom; and
from thence went forth the saying, Zion is fled. And all the days of
Enoch were four hundred and thirty years.

79 And it came to pass,
that Methuselah, the son of Enoch, was not taken, that the covenants
of the Lord might be fulfilled which he made to Enoch; for he truly
covenanted with Enoch, that Noah should be of the fruit of his loins.

80 And it came to pass,
that Methuselah prophesied that from his loins should spring all the
kingdoms of the earth; (through Noah,) and he took glory unto
himself.

81 And there came forth a
great famine into the land, and the Lord cursed the earth with a sore
curse, and many of the inhabitants thereof died.

82 And it came to pass,
that Methuselah lived one hundred and eighty-seven years, and begat
Lamech; and Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech, seven hundred and
eighty-two years, and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of
Methuselah were nine hundred and sixty-nine years, and he died.

83 And Lamech lived one
hundred and eighty-two years, and begat a son, and he called his name
Noah, saying, This son shall comfort us concerning our work, and toil
of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord hath cursed.

84
And Lamech lived after he begat Noah, five hundred and ninety-five
years, and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of Lamech were
seven hundred and seventy-seven years; and he died. 85 And Noah was
four hundred and fifty years old, and begat Japheth, and forty-two
years afterwards, he begat Shem, of her who was the mother of
Japheth, and when he was five hundred years old, he begat Ham.

GENESIS 8

1 And Noah and his sons
hearkened unto the Lord, and gave heed; and they were called the sons
of God.

2 And when these men
began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born
unto them, the sons of men saw that their daughters were fair, and
they took them wives even as they chose.

3 And the Lord said unto
Noah, The daughters of thy sons have sold themselves, for behold,
mine anger is kindled against the sons of men, for they will not
hearken to my voice.

4 And it came to pass,
that Noah prophesied, and taught the things of God, even as it was in
the beginning.

5 And the Lord said unto
Noah, My Spirit shall not always strive with man, for he shall know
that all flesh shall die, yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty
years; and if men do not repent, I will send in the floods upon them.

6 And in those days there
were giants on the earth, and they sought Noah to take away his life;

7 But the Lord was with
Noah, and the power of the Lord was upon him; and the Lord ordained
Noah after his own order, and commanded him that he should go forth
and declare his gospel unto the children of men, even as it was given
unto Enoch.

8 And it came to pass
that Noah called upon the children of men, that they should repent,
but they hearkened not unto his words.

9 And also, after that
they had heard him, they came up before him, saying, Behold, we are
the sons of God, have we not taken unto ourselves the daughters of
men? and are we not eating and drinking, and marrying and given in
marriage? and our wives bear unto us children, and the same are
mighty men, which are like unto them of old, men of great renown. And
they hearkened not unto the words of Noah.

10 And God saw that the
wickedness of man had become great in the earth; and every man was
lifted up in the imagination of the thoughts of his heart; being only
evil continually.

11 And it came to pass,
that Noah continued his preaching unto the people, saying, Hearken
and give heed unto my words, believe and repent of your sins and be
baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, even as our
fathers did, and ye shall receive the Holy Ghost, that ye may have
all things made manifest;

12 And if you do not
this, the floods will come in upon you; nevertheless, they hearkened
not.

13 And it repented Noah,
and his heart was pained, that the Lord had made man on the earth,
and it grieved him at his heart.

14 And the Lord said, I
will destroy man whom I have created, from the face of the earth,
both man and beast, and the creeping things, and the fowls of the
air.

15 For it repenteth Noah
that I have created them, and that I have made them; and he hath
called upon me, for they have sought his life.

16 And thus Noah found
grace in the eyes of the Lord; for Noah was a just man, and perfect
in his generation; and he walked with God, and also his three sons,
Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

17 The earth was corrupt
before God; and it was filled with violence. And God looked upon the
earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted its
way upon the earth.

18 And God said unto
Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled
with violence, and behold, I will destroy all flesh from off the
earth.

19 Make thee therefore,
an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and thou
shalt pitch it within and without with pitch;

20 And the length of the
ark thou shalt make three hundred cubits; the breadth of it fifty
cubits; and the height of it thirty cubits.

21 And windows shalt thou
make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the
door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; lower, second,
and third chambers shalt thou make in it.

22 And behold, I, even I
will bring in a flood of water upon the earth, to destroy all flesh,
wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; every thing that
liveth on the earth shall die.

23 But with thee will I
establish my covenant, even as I have sworn unto thy father, Enoch,
that of thy posterity shall come all nations.

24 And thou shalt come
into the ark, thou and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives
with them.

25 And of every living
thing of all flesh, two of every kind shalt thou bring into the ark,
to keep alive with thee; they shall be male and female.

26 Of fowls after their
kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the
earth after his kind; two of every kind shalt thou take into the ark,
to keep alive.

27 And take thou unto
thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather fruit of every
kind unto thee in the ark, and it shall be for food for thee, and for
them.

28 Thus did Noah,
according to all that God commanded him.

29 And the Lord said unto
Noah, Come thou and all thy house, into the ark; for thee only have I
seen righteous before me, in this generation.

30 Of every clean beast
thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female; and of
beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female;

31 Of fowls also of the
air, by sevens, the male and his female; to keep seed alive upon the
face of the earth.

32 For yet seven days,
and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days, and forty
nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy
from off the face of the earth.

33 And Noah did according
to all that the Lord commanded him. And Noah was six hundred years
old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.

34 And Noah went in, and
his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark,
because of the waters of the flood.

35 Of clean beasts, and
of beasts that were not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that
creepeth upon the earth, there went in two and two, unto Noah into
the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.

36 And it came to pass,
after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, and
the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains
of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened,
and the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

37 In the selfsame day
entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah; and
Noah's wife, and the three wives of his sons with them into the ark;
they, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their
kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth on the earth, after his
kind, and every fowl after his kind, and every bird of every sort;

38 And they went unto
Noah, into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath
of life; and they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh,
as God had commanded him, and the Lord shut him in.

39 And the flood was
forty days upon the earth, and the waters increased, and bare up the
ark, and it was lifted up above the earth.

40 And the waters
prevailed and increased greatly upon the earth, and the ark went upon
the face of the waters.

41 And the waters
prevailed exceedingly upon the face of the earth, and all the high
hills, under the whole heavens were covered. Fifteen cubits and
upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.

42 And all flesh died
that moved upon the face of the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle,
and of beasts, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the
earth, and every man.

43 All in whose nostrils
the Lord had breathed the breath of life, of all that were on the dry
land, died.

44 And every living
substance was destroyed, which was upon the face of the ground, both
man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowls of the air;
and they were destroyed from the earth;

45 And Noah only
remained, and they that were with him in the ark.

46 And the waters
prevailed on the earth one hundred and fifty days.

47 And God remembered
Noah, and all that were with him in the ark. And God made a wind to
pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged.

48 The fountains also of
the deep, and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from
heaven was restrained; and the waters returned from off the earth.

49 And after the end of
the hundred and fifty days, the waters were abated. And the ark
rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month,
upon the mountain of Ararat.

50 And the waters
decreased until the tenth month; and in the tenth month, on the first
day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.

51 And it came to pass,
at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark
which he had made, and he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and
fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.

52 He also sent forth a
dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of
the ground; but the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and
she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters had not receded
from off the face of the whole earth; then he put forth his hand and
took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.

53 And he stayed yet
other seven days, and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark,
and the dove came in to him in the evening; and lo, in her mouth an
olive leaf plucked off; so Noah knew that the waters were abated from
off the earth.

54 And he stayed yet
other seven days, and sent forth a dove, which returned not again
unto him any more.

55 And it came to pass,
in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day
of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth.

56
And Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the
face of the ground was dry. And in the second month, on the seven and
twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.

GENESIS 9

1 And God spake unto
Noah, saying, Go forth out of the ark, thou and thy wife, and thy
sons, and thy sons' wives with thee.

2 Bring forth with thee
every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and
of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth;
that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful and
multiply upon the earth.

3 And Noah went forth,
and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him. And every
beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl upon the earth, after
their kinds, went forth out of the ark.

4 And Noah builded an
altar unto the Lord, and took of every clean beast, and of every
clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar; and gave thanks
unto the Lord, and rejoiced in his heart.

5 And the Lord spake unto
Noah, and he blessed him. And Noah smelled a sweet savor, and he said
in his heart;

6 I will call on the name
of the Lord, that he will not again curse the ground any more for
man's sake, for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his
youth; and that he will not again smite any more every thing living,
as he hath done, while the earth remaineth;

7 And, that seed-time and
harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night,
may not cease with man.

8 And God blessed Noah
and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply, and
replenish the earth. And the fear of you, and the dread of you shall
be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air,
upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the
sea; into your hand are they delivered.

9 Every moving thing that
liveth shall be meat for you; even as the green herb have I given you
all things.

10 But, the blood of all
flesh which I have given you for meat, shall be shed upon the ground,
which taketh life thereof, and the blood ye shall not eat.

11 And surely, blood
shall not be shed, only for meat, to save your lives; and the blood
of every beast will I require at your hands.

12 And whoso sheddeth
man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed; for man shall not shed
the blood of man.

13 For a commandment I
give, that every man's brother shall preserve the life of man, for in
mine own image have I made man.

14 And a commandment I
give unto you, Be ye fruitful and multiply; bring forth abundantly on
the earth, and multiply therein.

15 And God spake unto
Noah, and to his sons with him, saying, And I, behold, I will
establish my covenant with you, which I made unto your father Enoch,
concerning your seed after you.

16 And it shall come to
pass, that every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, and
of the cattle, and of the beast of the earth that is with you, which
shall go out of the ark, shall not altogether perish; neither shall
all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall
there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.

17 And I will establish
my covenant with you, which I made unto Enoch, concerning the
remnants of your posterity.

18 And God made a
covenant with Noah, and said, This shall be the token of the covenant
I make between me and you, and for every living creature with you,
for perpetual generations;

19 I will set my bow in
the cloud; and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and
the earth.

20 And it shall come to
pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen
in the cloud; and I will remember my covenant, which I have made
between me and you, for every living creature of all flesh. And the
waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

21 And the bow shall be
in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the
everlasting covenant, which I made unto thy father Enoch; that, when
men should keep all my commandments, Zion should again come on the
earth, the city of Enoch which I have caught up unto myself.

22 And this is mine
everlasting covenant, that when thy posterity shall embrace the
truth, and look upward, then shall Zion look downward, and all the
heavens shall shake with gladness, and the earth shall tremble with
joy;

23 And the general
assembly of the church of the firstborn shall come down out of
heaven, and possess the earth, and shall have place until the end
come. And this is mine everlasting covenant, which I made with thy
father Enoch.

24 And the bow shall be
in the cloud, and I will establish my covenant unto thee, which I
have made between me and thee, for every living creature of all flesh
that shall be upon the earth.

25 And God said unto
Noah, This is the token of the covenant which I have established
between me and thee; for all flesh that shall be upon the earth.

26 And the sons of Noah
that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth; and Ham
was the father of Canaan. These were the three sons of Noah, and of
them was the whole earth overspread.

27 And Noah began to till
the earth, and he was an husbandman; and he planted a vineyard, and
he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within
his tent;

28 And Ham, the father of
Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his brethren
without; and Shem and Japheth took a garment and laid upon both their
shoulders, and went backward and covered the nakedness of their
father, and they saw not their father's nakedness.

29 And Noah awoke from
his wine, and knew what his youngest son had done unto him, and he
said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his
brethren.

30 And he said, Blessed
be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant, and a veil
of darkness shall cover him, that he shall be known among all men.

31 God shall enlarge
Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be
his servant.

32 And Noah lived after
the flood, three hundred and fifty years. And all the days of Noah
were nine hundred and fifty years; and he died.

GENESIS 10

1 Now these were the
generations of the sons of Noah; Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and unto
them were sons born after the flood.

2 The sons of Japheth;
Gomer, and Magog, Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meschech, and
Tiras.

3 And these are the sons
of Gomer; Ashkenaz and Riphath, and Togarmah. And the sons of Javan;
Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim. By these were the isles
of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after the same
tongue, after their families, in their nations.

4 And the sons of Ham;
Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan. And the sons of Cush; Seba,
and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtecha. And the sons of
Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.

5 And Cush begat Nimrod;
he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter in
the land. Wherefore, it is said; Even as Nimrod, the mighty hunter in
the land.

6 And he began a kingdom,
and the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and
Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

7 Out of that land went
forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,
and Resen between Nineveh and Calah; the same was a great city.

8 And Mizraim begat
Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim, and Pathrusim, and
Casluhim, out of whom came Philistim and Caphtorim.

9 And Canaan begat Sidon,
his firstborn, and Heth, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and
Girgashite, and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite, and the
Arvadite, and Zemarite, and the Hamathite; and afterward were the
families of the Canaanites spread abroad.

10 And the borders of the
Canaanites were from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar unto Gaza; as
thou goest unto Sodom and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboiim even unto
Lasha.

11 These were the sons of
Ham, after their families, after the same tongue, in their countries,
and in their nations.

12 Unto Shem also, which
was the elder, children were born; and he was the father of Eber, and
even to him were children born.

13 And these are the
children of Shem; Eber, and Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud,
and Aram.

14 And these were the
children of Aram; Us, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.

15 And Arphaxad begat
Salah, and Salah begat Eber. And unto Eber were born two sons; the
name of one, Peleg, the other Joktan.

16 And Peleg was a mighty
man, for in his days was the earth divided.

17 And Joktan begat
Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah, and Hadoram, and
Uzal, and Diklah, and Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba, and Ophar, and
Havilah, and Jobab; and these were the sons of Joktan.

18 And their dwelling was
from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar, a mount of the east.

19 These were the sons of
Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands,
after their nations.

20 These were the
families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their
nations; and by these were the nations divided on the earth, after
the flood.

GENESIS 11

1 And the whole earth was
of the same language, and of the same speech. And it came to pass,
that many journeyed from the east, and as they journeyed from the
east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and dwelt there in
the plain of Shinar.

2 And they said one to
another, Come, go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly.
And they had brick for stone, and they had slime for mortar.

3 And they said, Come, go
to, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top will be high, nigh
unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad
upon the face of the whole earth.

4 And the Lord came down,
beholding the city and the tower which the children of men were
building;

5 And the Lord said,
Behold, the people are the same, and they all have the same language;
and this tower they begin to build, and now, nothing will be
restrained from them, which they have imagined, except I, the Lord,
confound their language, that they may not understand one another's
speech. So I, the Lord, will scatter them abroad from thence, upon
all the face of the land, and unto every quarter of the earth.

6 And they were
confounded, and left off to build the city, and they hearkened not
unto the Lord, therefore, is the name of it called Babel, because the
Lord was displeased with their works, and did there confound the
language of all the earth; and from thence did the Lord scatter them
abroad upon the face thereof.

7 And these were the
generations of Shem. And Shem being an hundred years old, begat
Arphaxad two years after the flood; and Shem lived after he begat
Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

8 And Arphaxad lived five
and thirty years, and begat Salah; and Arphaxad lived after he begat
Salah, four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.

9 And Salah lived thirty
years, and begat Eber; and Salah lived after he begat Eber four
hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.

10 And Eber lived four
and thirty years, and begat Peleg; and Eber lived after he begat
Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.

11 And Peleg lived thirty
years, and begat Reu; and Peleg lived after he begat Reu, two hundred
and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.

12 And Reu lived two and
thirty years, and begat Serug; and Reu lived after he begat Serug two
hundred and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.

13 And Serug lived thirty
years, and begat Nahor; and Serug lived after he begat Nahor two
hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

14 And Nahor lived nine
and twenty years, and begat Terah; and Nahor lived after he begat
Terah and hundred and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.

15 And Terah lived
seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor and Haran.

16 Now these were the
generations of Terah; Terah begat Abram, Nahor and Haran; and Haran
begat Lot.

17 And Haran died before
his father Terah, in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.

18 And Abram and Nahor
took them wives; and the name of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name
of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah
and the father of Iscah; but Sarai was barren, and she bear no child.

19 And Terah took Abram
his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his
daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife; and went forth with them from
Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and they came unto
Haran, and dwelt there.

20 And the days of Terah
were two hundred and five years; and Terah died in Haran.

GENESIS 12

1 Now, the Lord had said
unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and
from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee;

2 And I will make of thee
a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and
thou shalt be a blessing; and I will bless them that bless thee, and
curse them that curse thee; and in thee shall the families of the
earth be blessed.

3 So Abram departed, as
the Lord had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him. And Abram was
seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.

4 And Abram took Sarai,
his wife, and Lot, his brother's son, and all their substance that
they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and
they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of
Canaan they came.

5 And Abram passed
through the land unto the place of Sichem, and the plain of Moreh.
And the Canaanites were then in the land.

6 And the Lord appeared
unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land. And there
builded he an altar unto the Lord, who appeared unto him.

7 And he removed from
thence unto a mountain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent,
leaving Beth-el on the west, and Hai was on the east. And there he
builded an altar unto the Lord, and called upon the name of the Lord.
And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.

8 And there was a famine
in the land; and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the
famine became grievous in the land.

9 And it came to pass,
when he was come near to enter into Egypt, that he said unto Sarai
his wife, Behold, now I know thee to be a fair woman to look upon;
therefore it shall come to pass, when the Egyptians shall see thee,
that they shall say, This is his wife; and they will kill me, but
they will save thee alive; say I pray thee unto them, I am his
sister; that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall
live because of thee.

10 And it came to pass,
that when Abram was come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman,
that she was very fair.

11 The princes also of
Pharaoh saw her, and commanded her to be brought before Pharaoh; and
the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house.

12 And he entreated Abram
well for her sake; and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and
menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels.

13 And the Lord plagued
Pharaoh and his house with great plagues, because of Sarai, Abram's
wife.

14 And Pharaoh called
Abram, and said, What hast thou done unto me in this thing? Why didst
thou not tell me that she was thy wife? Why saidst thou, She is my
sister? so I might have taken her unto me to wife; now therefore,
behold I say unto thee, Take thy wife and go thy way.

15 And Pharaoh commanded
men concerning him; and they sent him away, and his wife, and all
that he had.

GENESIS
13

1 And Abram went up out
of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him,
unto the south. And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in
gold.

2 And he went on his
journey from the south, even to Bethel, unto the place where his tent
had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Hai; unto the place of
the altar, which he had made there at the first; and there Abram
called on the name of the Lord.

3 And Lot also, which
went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.

4 And the land was not
able to bear them, that they might dwell together; for their
substance was great, so that they could not dwell together. And there
was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle, and the herdmen
of Lot's cattle, that they could not dwell together.

5 And the Canaanite, and
the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.

6 And Abram said unto
Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and
between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we are brethren.

7 Is not the whole land
before thee? Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me; if thou go to
the left hand, then I will go to the right; if thou go to the right
hand, then I will go to the left.

8 And Lot lifted up his
eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered
everywhere, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like as the
garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt.

9 Then Lot chose him all
the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east; and they separated
themselves the one from the other.

10 Abram dwelled in the
land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and
pitched his tent toward Sodom.

11 But the men of Sodom
becoming sinners, and exceedingly wicked before the Lord, the Lord
was angry with them.

12 And the Lord said unto
Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes,
and look from the place where thou art, northward, and southward, and
eastward, and westward;

13 And remember the
covenant which I make with thee; for it shall be an everlasting
covenant; and thou shalt remember the days of Enoch thy father;

14 For all the land which
thou seest, will I give thee, and to thy seed for ever; and I will
make thy seed as the dust of the earth; so that if a man can number
the dust of the earth, thy seed shall also be numbered.

15 Arise, walk through
the land in the length of it, and in the breadth of it, for I will
give it unto thee. Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in
the plain of Mamre, which was in Hebron, and built there an altar
unto the Lord.

GENESIS
14

1 And it came to pass, in
the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar, and
Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations;

2 That these kings made
war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab
king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela,
which is Zoar.

3 All these were joined
together in the vale of Siddim, which is the salt sea;

4 Twelve years they
served Chedorlaomer, and in the thirteenth year they rebelled.

5 And in the fourteenth
year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and smote
the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the
Emims in Shaveh Kiriathaim, and the Horites in their mount Seir, unto
Elparan, which was by the wilderness.

6 And they returned and
came to Enmishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the
Amalekites, and also the Amorites, in Hazezontamar.

7 And there went out the
king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and
the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar;

8 And they joined battle
with them in the vale of Siddim; with Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and
with Tidal king of nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch
king of Ellasar; four kings with five.

9 And the vale of Siddim
was filled with slime pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled
and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain which was
called Hanabal.

10 And they took all the
goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their
way.

11 And they took Lot,
Abram's brother's son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods and
departed.

12 And there came one
that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew, the man of God, for he
dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eschol, and
brother of Aner; and these were confederate with Abram.

13 And when Abram heard
that Lot, his brother's son, was taken captive, he armed his trained
men, and they which were born in his own house, three hundred and
eighteen, and pursued unto Dan.

14 And he divided himself
against them, he and his men, by night, and smote them, and pursued
them unto Hobah, which was on the left hand of Damascus.

15 And he brought back
Lot, his brother's son, and all his goods, and the women also, and
the people.

16 And the king of Sodom
also went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of
Chedorlaomer, and of the kings that were with him, at the valley of
Shaveh, which was the king's dale.

17 And Melchizedek, king
of Salem, brought forth bread and wine; and he break bread and blest
it; and he blest the wine, he being the priest of the most high God,

18 And he gave to Abram,
and he blessed him, and said, Blessed Abram, thou art a man of the
most high God, possessor of heaven and of earth;

19 And blessed is the
name of the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into
thine hand.

20 And Abram gave him
tithes of all he had taken.

21 And the king of Sodom
said to Abram, Give me the persons, and take the goods to thyself.

22 And Abram said to the
king of Sodom, I have lifted up my hand unto the Lord, the most high
God, the possessor of heaven and earth.

23 And have sworn that I
will not take of thee from a thread even to a shoe-latchet, and that
I will not take anything that is thine, (lest thou shouldst say, I
have made Abram rich;)

24 Save only that which
the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men which went with
me, Ener, Eschol, and Mamre; let them take their portion.

25 And Melchizedek lifted
up his voice and blessed Abram.

26 Now Melchizedek was a
man of faith, who wrought righteousness; and when a child he feared
God, and stopped the mouths of lions, and quenched the violence of
fire.

27 And thus, having been
approved of God, he was ordained an high priest after the order of
the covenant which God made with Enoch,

28 It being after the
order of the Son of God; which order came, not by man, nor the will
of man; neither by father nor mother; neither by beginning of days
nor end of years; but of God;

29 And it was delivered
unto men by the calling of his own voice, according to his own will,
unto as many as believed on his name.

30 For God having sworn
unto Enoch and unto his seed with an oath by himself; that every one
being ordained after this order and calling should have power, by
faith, to break mountains, to divide the seas, to dry up waters, to
turn them out of their course;

31 To put at defiance the
armies of nations, to divide the earth, to break every band, to stand
in the presence of God; to do all things according to his will,
according to his command, subdue principalities and powers; and this
by the will of the Son of God which was from before the foundation of
the world.

32 And men having this
faith, coming up unto this order of God, were translated and taken up
into heaven.

33 And now, Melchizedek
was a priest of this order; therefore he obtained peace in Salem, and
was called the Prince of peace.

34 And his people wrought
righteousness, and obtained heaven, and sought for the city of Enoch
which God had before taken, separating it from the earth, having
reserved it unto the latter days, or the end of the world;

35 And hath said, and
sworn with an oath, that the heavens and the earth should come
together; and the sons of God should be tried so as by fire.

36 And this Melchizedek,
having thus established righteousness, was called the king of heaven
by his people, or, in other words, the King of peace.

37 And he lifted up his
voice, and he blessed Abram, being the high priest, and the keeper of
the storehouse of God;

38 Him whom God had
appointed to receive tithes for the poor.

39 Wherefore, Abram paid
unto him tithes of all that he had, of all the riches which he
possessed, which God had given him more than that which he had need.

40 And it came to pass,
that God blessed Abram, and gave unto him riches, and honor, and
lands for an everlasting possession; according to the covenant which
he had made, and according to the blessing wherewith Melchizedek had
blessed him.

GENESIS
15

1 And it came to pass,
that after these things, the word of the Lord came unto Abram in a
vision, saying;

2 Fear not, Abram; I will
be thy shield; I will be thy exceeding great reward. And according to
the blessings of my servant, I will give unto thee.

3 And Abram said, Lord
God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and Eliezer of
Damascus was made the steward of my house?

4 And Abram said, Behold,
to me thou hast given no seed; and lo, one born in my house is mine
heir.

5 And behold, the word of
the Lord came unto him again, saying,

6 This shalt not be thine
heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be
thine heir.

7 And he brought him
forth abroad, and he said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the
stars, if thou be able to number them.

8 And he said unto him,
so shall thy seed be.

9 And Abram said, Lord
God, how wilt thou give me this land for an everlasting inheritance?

10 And the Lord said,
Though thou wast dead, yet am I not able to give it thee?

11 And if thou shalt die,
yet thou shalt possess it, for the day cometh, that the Son of Man
shall live; but how can he live if he be not dead? he must first be
quickened.

12 And it came to pass
that Abram looked forth and saw the days of the Son of Man, and was
glad, and his soul found rest, and he believed in the Lord; and the
Lord counted it unto him for righteousness.

13 And the Lord said unto
him, I, the Lord, brought thee out of Ur, of the Chaldees, to give
thee this land to inherit it.

14 And Abram said, Lord,
whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? yet he believed God.
And the Lord said unto him, Take me a heifer of three years old, and
a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a
turtle-dove, and a young pigeon.

15 And he took unto him
all these, and he divided them in the midst, and he laid each piece
one against the other; but the birds divided he not.

16 And when the fowls
came down upon the carcasses, Abram drove them away. And when the sun
was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, a great horror
of darkness fell upon him.

17 And the Lord spake,
and he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a
stranger in a land which shall not be theirs, and shall serve
strangers; and they shall be afflicted, and serve them four hundred
years; and also that nation whom they shall serve will I judge; and
afterwards shall they come out with great substance.

18 And thou shalt die,
and go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old
age.

19 But in the fourth
generation they shall come hither again; for the iniquity of the
Amorites is not yet full.

20 And it came to pass,
that when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a smoking
furnace, and a burning lamp which passed between those pieces which
Abram had divided.

21 And in that same day
the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I
given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river
Euphrates;

22 The Kenites, and the
Kenazites, and the Kadmonites, and Hittites, and the Perizzites, and
the Rephaims, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the
Girgashites, and the Jebusites.

GENESIS
16

1 Now Sarai, Abram's
wife, bare him no children. And she had a handmaid, an Egyptian,
whose name was Hagar.

2 And Sarai said unto
Abram, Behold, now, the Lord hath restrained me from bearing; I pray
thee go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her.
And Abram hearkened unto the voice of Sarai.

3 And Sarai, Abram's
wife, took Hagar her maid, the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten
years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband, Abram, to
be his wife.

4 And he went in unto
Hagar, and she conceived; and when she saw that she had conceived,
her mistress was despised in her eyes.

5 And Sarai said unto
Abram, My wrong is upon thee; I have given my maid into thy bosom;
and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes;
the Lord judge between me and thee.

6 But Abram said unto
Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy hands; do to her as it pleaseth
thee.

7 And when Sarai dealt
hardly with her, she fled from her face.

8 And an angel of the
Lord found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the
fountain in the way to Shur.

9 And he said, Hagar,
Sarai's maid, whence comest thou, and whither wilt thou go? and she
said, I flee from the face of my mistress Sarai.

10 And the angel of the
Lord said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself unto
her hands.

11 And the angel of the
Lord said unto her, The Lord will multiply thy seed exceedingly, so
that it shall not be numbered for multitude.

12 And the angel of the
Lord said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a
son, and shall call his name Ishmael: because the Lord hath heard thy
afflictions.

13 And he will be a wild
man; and his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand
against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.

14 And she called the
name of the angel of the Lord.

15 And he spake unto her,
saying, Knowest thou that God seest thee?

16 And she said, I know
that God seest me, for I have also here looked after him.

17 And there was a well
between Kadesh and Bered, near where Hagar saw the angel.

18 And the name of the
angel was Beer-la-hai-roi; wherefore the well was called
Beer-la-hai-roi for a memorial.

19 And Hagar bear Abram a
son; and Abram called his son's name, which Hagar bear, Ishmael.

20 And Abram was
four-score and six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram.

GENESIS
17

1 And when Abram was
ninety and nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said unto
him, I, the Almighty God, give unto thee a commandment; that thou
shalt walk uprightly before me, and be perfect.

2 And I will make my
covenant between me and thee, and I will multiply thee exceedingly.

3 And it came to pass,
that Abram fell on his face, and called upon the name of the Lord.

4 And God talked with
him, saying, My people have gone astray from my precepts, and have
not kept mine ordinances, which I gave unto their fathers;

5 And they have not
observed mine anointing, and the burial, or baptism wherewith I
commanded them;

6 But have turned from
the commandment, and taken unto themselves the washing of children,
and the blood of sprinkling;

7 And have said that the
blood of the righteous Abel was shed for sins; and have not known
wherein they are accountable before me.

8 But as for thee,
behold, I will make my covenant with thee, and thou shalt be a father
of many nations.

9 And this covenant I
make, that thy children may be known among all nations. Neither shall
thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be called
Abraham; for, a father of many nations have I made thee.

10 And I will make thee
exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings
shall come of thee, and of thy seed.

11 And I will establish a
covenant of circumcision with thee, and it shall be my covenant
between me and thee, and thy seed after thee, in their generations;
that thou mayest know forever that children are not accountable
before me until they are eight years old.

12 And thou shalt observe
to keep all my covenants wherein I covenanted with thy fathers; and
thou shalt keep the commandments which I have given thee with mine
own mouth, and I will be a God unto thee and thy seed after thee.

13 And I will give unto
thee and thy seed after thee, a land wherein thou art a stranger; all
the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be
their God.

15 And this shall be my
covenant which ye shall keep between me and thee and thy seed after
thee; every man-child among you shall be circumcised.

16 And ye shall
circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the
covenant betwixt me and you.

17 And he that is eight
days old shall be circumcised among you, every man-child in your
generations;

18 He that is born in the
house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy
seed.

19 He that is born in thy
house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be
circumcised, and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an
everlasting covenant.

20 And the uncircumcised
man-child, whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul
shall be cut off from his people, he hath broken my covenant.

21 And God said unto
Abraham, as for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai,
but Sarah thou shalt call her name.

22 And I will bless her,
and I will give thee a son of her; yea, I will bless her, and she
shall be blessed, The mother of nations; kings and people shall be of
her.

23 Then Abraham fell on
his face and rejoiced, and said in his heart, There shall a child be
born unto him that is an hundred years old, and Sarah that is ninety
years old shall bear.

24 And Abraham said unto
God, Oh that Ishmael might live uprightly before thee!

25 And God said, Sarah
thy wife shall bare thee a son, and thou shalt call his name Isaac;
and I will establish my covenant with him also, for an everlasting
covenant with his seed after him.

26 And as for Ishmael, I
have heard thee; Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him
fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly;

27 Twelve princes shall
he beget, and I will make him a great nation.

28 But my covenant will I
establish with Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set
time in the next year.

29 And he left off
talking with him; and God went up from Abraham.

30 And Abraham took
Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that
were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's
house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame
day, as God had said unto him.

31 And Abraham was ninety
and nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his
foreskin.

32 And Ishmael was
thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his
foreskin.

33 In the selfsame day
Abraham was circumcised, and Ishmael his son; and all the men of his
house, which were born in his house, and bought with money of
strangers, were also circumcised with him.

GENESIS
18

1 And the Lord appeared
unto Abraham in the plains of Mamre. And he sat in his tent door in
the heat of the day;

2 And he lifted up his
eyes and looked, and lo, three men stood by him; and when he saw, he
ran to meet them from his tent door, and bowed himself toward the
ground, and said;

3 My brethren, if now I
have found favor in your sight, pass not away I pray you from thy
servant.

4 Let a little water I
pray you be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under
the tree, and I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your
hearts; after that you shall pass on; for therefore are ye come to
your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.

5 And Abraham hastened
into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures
of fine meal, knead, and make cakes upon the hearth.

6 And Abraham ran unto
the herd, and fetched a calf, tender and good, and gave it unto a
young man, and he hasted to dress it.

7 And he took butter and
milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set them before them,
and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.

8 And they said unto him,
Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent.

9 And one of them blessed
Abraham, and he said, I will certainly return unto thee from my
journey, and lo, according to the time of life, Sarah thy wife shall
have a son.

10 And Sarah heard him,
in the tent door.

11 And now Abraham and
Sarah being old, and stricken in age; therefore it had ceased to be
with Sarah after the manner of women;

12 Therefore Sarah
laughed within herself, saying, After I have waxed old shall I have
pleasure, my lord being old also?

13 And the angel of the
Lord said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of
a surety bear a child, which am old? Is anything too hard for the
Lord?

14 At the time appointed,
behold, I will return unto thee from my journey, which the Lord hath
sent me; and according to the time of life thou mayest know that
Sarah shall have a son.

15 Then Sarah denied,
saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And he said, Nay, but thou
didst laugh.

16 And the angels rose up
from thence, and looked toward Sodom; and Abraham went with them to
bring them on the way.

17 And the angel of the
Lord, said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which the Lord will
do for him; seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and
mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in
him?

18 For I know him, that
he will command his children, and his household after him, and they
shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment, that the
Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he has spoken of him.

19 And the angel of the
Lord said unto Abraham, The Lord said unto us, Because the cry of
Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous,
I will destroy them.

20 And I will send you,
and ye shall go down now, and see that their iniquities are rewarded
unto them.

21 And ye shall have all
things done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto
me.

22 And if ye do it not,
it shall be upon your heads; for I will destroy them, and you shall
know that I will do it, for it shall be before your eyes.

23 And the angels which
were holy men, and were sent forth after the order of God, turned
their faces from thence and went toward Sodom.

24 But Abraham stood yet
before the Lord, remembering the things which had been told him.

25 And Abraham drew near
to Sodom, and said unto the Lord, calling upon his name, saying, Wilt
thou destroy the righteous with the wicked? Wilt thou not spare them?

26 Peradventure there may
be fifty righteous within the city, wilt thou also destroy and not
spare the place for the fifty righteous that may be therein?

27 O may that be far from
thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked;
and that the righteous should be as the wicked.

28 O God, may that be far
from thee, for shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

29 And the Lord said unto
Abraham, If thou findest in Sodom, fifty righteous within the city,
then I will spare all the place for their sakes.

30 And Abraham answered
and said, Behold, now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord,
which is able to destroy the city, and lay all the people in dust and
ashes;

31 Will the Lord spare
them peradventure there lack five of the fifty righteous; wilt thou
destroy all the city for their wickedness, if I find there forty and
five righteous?

32 And he said, I will
not destroy, but spare them.

33 And he spake unto him
again, and said, Peradventure there should be forty found there?

34 And he said, I will
not destroy it for forty's sake.

35 And he said again unto
the Lord, O, let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak:
Peradventure there shall thirty be found there?

36 And he said, I will
not destroy them if thou shalt find thirty there.

37 And he said, Behold
now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord; wilt thou destroy
them if peradventure there shall twenty be found there?

38 And he said, I will
not destroy them for twenty's sake.

39 And Abraham said unto
the Lord, O, let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this
once, peradventure ten shall be found there?

40 And the Lord said, I
will not destroy them for ten's sake. And the Lord ceased speaking
with Abraham.

41 And as soon as he had
left communing with the Lord, Abraham went his way.

42 And it came to pass
that Abraham returned unto his tent.

GENESIS
19

1 And it came to pass,
that there came three angels to Sodom in the evening; and Lot sat in
the door of his house, in the city of Sodom.

2 And Lot, seeing the
angels, rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face
toward the ground;

3 And he said, Behold
now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house, and
tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and
go on your ways.

4 And they said, Nay; but
we will abide in the street all night.

5 And he pressed upon
them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his
house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and
they did eat.

6 But before they lay
down to rest, the men of the city of Sodom compassed the house round,
even men which were both old and young, even the people from every
quarter;

7 And they called unto
Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in unto thee
this night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them.

8 And Lot went out of the
door, unto them, and shut the door after him, and said, I pray you,
brethren, do not so wickedly.

9 And they said unto him,
Stand back. And they were angry with him.

10 And they said among
themselves, This one man came in to sojourn among us, and he will
needs now make himself to be a judge; now we will deal worse with him
than with them.

11 Wherefore they said
unto the man, We will have the men, and thy daughters also; and we
will do with them as seemeth us good.

12 Now this was after the
wickedness of Sodom.

13 And Lot said, Behold
now, I have two daughters which have not known man; let me, I pray
you, plead with my brethren that I may not bring them out unto you;
and ye shall not do unto them as seemeth good in your eyes;

14 For God will not
justify his servant in this thing; wherefore, let me plead with my
brethren, this once only, that unto these men ye do nothing, that
they may have peace in my house; for therefore came they under the
shadow of my roof.

15 And they were angry
with Lot and came near to break the door, but the angels of God,
which were holy men, put forth their hand and pulled Lot into the
house unto them, and shut the door.

16 And they smote the men
with blindness, both small and great, that they could not come at the
door.

17 And they were angry,
so that they wearied themselves to find the door, and could not find
it.

18 And these holy men
said unto Lot, Hast thou any here besides thy sons-in-law, and thy
son's sons and thy daughters?

19 And they commanded
Lot, saying, Whatsoever thou hast in the city, thou shalt bring out
of this place, for we will destroy this place;

20 Because the cry of
them is waxen great, and their abominations have come up before the
face of the Lord; and the Lord hath sent us to destroy it.

21 And Lot went out and
spake unto his sons-in-law, which married his daughters, and said,
Up, get ye out of this place, for the Lord will destroy this city.

22 But he seemed as one
that mocked, unto his sons-in-law.

23 And when the morning
came, the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy
two daughters which are here, lest thou be consumed in the iniquity
of the city.

24 And while he lingered
the angels laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife,
and upon the hand of his two daughters; the Lord being merciful unto
them; and they brought them forth, and set them down without the
city.

25 And it came to pass,
when they had brought them forth abroad that they said unto them,
Escape for your lives; look not behind you, neither stay you in all
the plain; escape to the mountain lest you be consumed.

26 And Lot said unto one
of them, Oh, not so my Lord! behold now, thy servant has found grace
in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy which thou hast
showed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the
mountain, lest some evil overtake me, and I die.

27 Behold now, here is
another city, and this is near to flee unto and it is a little one;
oh, let me escape thither, and may the Lord not destroy it, and my
soul shall live.

28 And the angel said
unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that
I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou hast spoken; haste
thee, escape thither, for I cannot do anything until thou be come
thither.

29 And the name of the
city was called Zoar. Therefore the sun was risen upon the earth when
Lot entered into Zoar.

30 And the Lord did not
destroy Sodom until Lot had entered into Zoar.

31 And then, when Lot had
entered into Zoar, the Lord rained upon Sodom, and upon Gomorrah; for
the angels called upon the name of the Lord for brimstone and fire
from the Lord out of heaven.

32 And thus they
overthrew those cities and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of
the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.

33 But it came to pass,
when Lot fled, his wife looked back from behind him, and became a
pillar of salt.

34 And Abraham got up
early in the morning to the place where he stood before the Lord; and
he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the
plain, and behold, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke
of a furnace.

35 And it came to pass,
when God had destroyed the cities of the plain, that God spake unto
Abraham, saying, I have remembered Lot, and sent him out of the midst
of the overthrow, that thy brother might not be destroyed, when I
overthrew the city in the which thy brother Lot dwelt.

36 And Abraham was
comforted. And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain,
and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar. And
he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.

37 And the firstborn
dealt wickedly, and said unto the younger, Our father has become old,
and we have not a man on the earth to come in unto us, to live with
us after the manner of all that live on the earth;

38 Therefore come, let us
make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may
preserve seed of our father.

39 And they did wickedly,
and made their father drink wine that night; and the firstborn went
in and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down,
nor when she arose.

40 And it came to pass on
the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay
yesternight with my father; let us make him drink wine this night
also, and go thou in and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of
our father.

41 And they made their
father drink wine that night also; and the younger arose, and lay
with him, and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

42 Thus were both the
daughters of Lot with child by their father.

43 And the firstborn bare
a son, and called his name Moab; the father of the Moabites, the same
which are unto this day.

44 And the younger, she
also bare a son, and called his name Ben-ammi; the father of the
children which are Ammonites; the same which are unto this day.

GENESIS
20

1 And Abraham journeyed
from thence toward the south country, and dwelt between Kadesh and
Shur, and sojourned in Gerar.

2 And Abraham said again
of Sarah his wife, She is my sister.

3 And Abimelech, king of
Gerar, sent and took Sarah. But God came to Abimelech in a dream by
night, and said unto him, Behold, thou hast taken a woman which is
not thine own, for she is Abraham's wife.

4 And the Lord said unto
him, Thou shalt return her unto Abraham, for if thou do it not thou
shalt die.

5 And Abimelech had not
come near her; for the Lord had not suffered him.

6 And he said, Lord, wilt
thou slay me, and also a righteous nation? Behold, said he not unto
me, She is my sister? And she, even she herself said, He is my
brother; and in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands
have I done this.

7 And God said unto him
in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst do this in the integrity of
thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning against me;
therefore suffered I not thee to touch her.

8 Now, therefore, restore
the man's wife to him, for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for
thee, and thou shalt live; and if thou restore her not to him, know
thou that thou shalt surely die; thou and all that are thine.

9 Therefore, Abimelech
arose early in the morning, and called his servants, and told all
these things in their ears; and the men were sore afraid.

10 Then Abimelech called
Abraham, and said unto him, What hast thou done unto us? and in what
have I offended thee that thou hast brought on me and on my kingdom a
great sin?

11 Thou hast done things
unto me that ought not to be done. And Abimelech said unto Abraham,
What sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing?

12 And Abraham said,
Because I thought assuredly the fear of God was not in this place,
and they would slay me for my wife's sake;

13 And yet indeed she was
my sister; she was the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of
my mother; and she became my wife.

14 And it came to pass,
when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said unto
her, This shall be thy kindness which thou shalt show unto me, at
every place whither we shall come, say of me, He is my brother.

15 And Abimelech took
sheep and oxen, and menservants, and womenservants, and gave unto
Abraham, and restored unto him Sarah his wife.

16 And Abimelech said,
Behold, my land lieth before thee; dwell where it pleaseth thee.

17 And unto Sarah he
said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver;
behold, he shall give unto thee a covering of the eyes, and it shall
be a token unto all that thou mayest not be taken again from Abraham
thy husband. And thus she was reproved.

18 So Abraham prayed unto
God; and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maidservants,
and they bare unto him children.

19 For because of Sarah,
Abraham's wife, the Lord had fast closed up all the wombs of the
house of Abimelech.

GENESIS
21

1 And the Lord visited
Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken by
the mouth of his angels; for Sarah conceived and bear Abraham a son
in his old age, at the set time of which the angels of God had spoken
to him.

2 And Abraham called the
name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bear unto him,
Isaac.

3 And Abraham circumcised
his son Isaac, he being eight days old, as God had commanded him.

4 And Abraham was an
hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.

5 And Sarah said, God has
made me to rejoice; and also all that know me will rejoice with me.

6 And she said unto
Abraham, Who would have said that Sarah should have given children
suck? For I was barren, but the Lord promised, and I have borne unto
Abraham a son in his old age.

7 And the child grew, and
was weaned. And the day that Isaac was weaned, Abraham made a great
feast, and Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which Hagar had
borne unto Abraham, mocking; and she was troubled.

8 Wherefore she said unto
Abraham, Cast out this bondwoman and her son; for the son of this
bondwoman shall not be heir with my son, Isaac.

9 And this thing was very
grievous unto Abraham because of his son.

10 And God said unto
Abraham, Let it not be grievous in thy sight, because of the lad, and
because of thy bondwoman; in all that Sarah has said unto thee,
hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called.

11 And also of the son of
the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.

12 And Abraham rose up
early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave
unto Hagar, and she took the child, and he sent her away; and she
departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.

13 And it came to pass
that the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under
one of the shrubs, and she went and sat her down over against the
child, a good way off, as it were a bowshot; for she said, Let me not
see the death of the child.

14 And she sat over
against the child, and lifted up her voice and wept.

15 And God heard the
voice of the lad; and the angel of the Lord called to Hagar out of
heaven, and said unto her;

16 What aileth thee,
Hagar? fear not, for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he
lieth; arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand, for I will
make of him a great nation.

17 And God opened her
eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went and filled the bottle
with water and gave the lad drink.

18 And God was with the
lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer;
and he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran, he and his mother.

19 And he took him a wife
out of the land of Egypt.

20 And it came to pass at
the time, that Abimelech and Phicol the chief captain of his host
spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest.

21 Now therefore, sware
unto me here, that, by the help of God thou wilt not deal falsely
with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son; but, that according
to the kindness that I have shown unto thee, thou shalt do unto me,
and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned.

22 And Abraham said, I
will swear.

23 And Abraham reproved
Abimelech, because of a well of water which Abimelech's servants had
violently taken away.

24 And Abimelech said,
Thou didst not tell me; and I know not who hath done this thing;
neither yet have I heard that it was done until this day.

25 And Abraham took sheep
and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a
covenant.

26 And Abraham set seven
ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.

27 And Abimelech said
unto Abraham, What wilt thou do with these seven ewe lambs which thou
hast set by themselves?

28 And he said, Seven ewe
lambs shalt thou take at my hand, that they may be a witness unto me
that I have digged this well.

29 And because they
sware, both of them, wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba;

30 And thus they made a
covenant at Beer-sheba;

31 Then Abimelech, and
Phicol, the chief captain of his hosts, rose up, and they planted a
grove in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of the Lord; and
they returned unto the land of the Philistines.

32 And Abraham worshiped
the everlasting God, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines
many days.

GENESIS
22

1 And it came to pass
after these things, that God did try Abraham and said unto him,
Abraham; and Abraham said, Behold, here am I.

2 And the Lord said, Take
now thy son, thine only Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into
the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering, upon
one of the mountains of which I will tell thee.

3 And Abraham rose up
early in the morning and saddled his ass, and took two of his young
men with him, and Isaac his son,

4 And clave the wood for
the burnt offering; and rose up, and went unto the place of which God
had told him.

5 Then on the third day,
Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place afar off.

6 And Abraham said unto
his young men, Abide you here with the ass, and I and the lad will go
yonder and worship, and come to you again.

7 And Abraham took the
wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon his back; and he took
the fire in his hand, and a knife, and Isaac his son; and they went
both of them together.

9 And he said, Behold the
fire and the wood; but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?

10 And Abraham said, My
son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering. So they
went both of them together; and they came to the place of which God
had told him.

11 And Abraham built an
altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and
laid him on the altar, upon the wood.

12 And Abraham stretched
forth his hand and took the knife to slay his son.

13 And the angel of the
Lord called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham! Abraham! And
Abraham said, Here am I.

14 And the angel said,
Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything unto him;

15 For now I know that
thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only
Isaac from me.

16 And Abraham lifted up
his eyes and looked, and behold, behind a thicket, there was a ram
caught in it by his horns.

17 And Abraham went and
took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering, in the stead
of his son.

18 And Abraham called the
name of that place Jehovah-jireh; as it is said unto this day, In the
mount of the Lord it shall be seen.

19 And the angel of the
Lord called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time, and said,

20 Thus saith the Lord, I
have sworn by myself, that because thou hast done this thing, and
hast not withheld thy son, thine only Isaac from me;

21 That in blessing I
will bless thee; and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the
stars of heaven, and as the sand which is upon the seashore.

22 And thy seed shall
possess the gate of his enemies; and in thy seed shall all the
nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.

23 So Abraham returned
unto his young men, and they rose up and went to Beer-sheba; and
Abraham dwelt at Beer-sheba.

24 And it came to pass
after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying,

25 Behold, Milcah, she
hath also borne children unto thy brother Nahor; Huz is his
firstborn, and Buz is his brother.

26 And Kemuel is the
father of Aram, and Chesed, and Haza, and Bildash, and Jidlaph, and
Bethuel;

27 And Bethuel begat
Rebekah.

28 These eight Milcah did
bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother; and his concubine, whose name was
Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, Thahash, and Maachah.

GENESIS
23

1 And Sarah was an
hundred and twenty-seven years old, and she died; and thus ended the
years of the life of Sarah.

2 And Sarah died in
Kirjatharba; the same is now called Hebron, in the land of Canaan.

3 And Abraham came to
mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her, his wife which was dead.

4 And Abraham stood up
from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying, I am a
stranger and a sojourner with you; give me a possession of a
burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.

5 And the children of
Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him, Hear us, my lord; thou art a
mighty prince among us; in the choicest of our sepulchers bury thou
thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulcher, but that
thou mayest bury thy dead.

6 And Abraham stood up,
and bowed himself to the people of the land, and to the children of
Heth; and he communed with them, saying,

7 If it be your mind that
I should bury my dead out of my sight, hear me, and entreat Ephron
the son of Zohar for me, that he may give me the cave of Machpelah,
which he hath in the end of his field;

8 For, as much money as
it is worth he shall have, if he will give it me for a possession of
a burying-place among you.

9 And Ephron dwelt among
the children of Heth.

10 And Ephron, the
Hittite, answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth,
among all of them that went in at the gates of the city, saying,

11 Hearken, my lord, and
hear me; the field I give thee, and the cave that is therein; I give
it thee in the presence of the sons of my people; and I give it thee;
therefore, bury thy dead.

12 And Abraham bowed
himself down before the people of the land, and he spake unto Ephron
in the audience of the people of the land, saying, I pray thee, hear
me;

13 If thou wilt take it
of me, I will give thee money for the field, and I will bury my dead
there, but I will give thee money for it.

14 And Ephron answered
Abraham, saying unto him, My lord, hearken unto me; the land thou
shalt have for four hundred shekels of silver; what shall that be
betwixt me and thee? Bury therefore thy dead.

15 And Abraham hearkened
unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed unto Ephron the silver which he had
named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of
silver, which was current with the merchant.

16 And the field of
Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre; the field,
and the cave which was therein, and all the trees that were in the
field, and that were in all the borders round about, were made sure
unto Abraham for a possession, in the presence of the children of
Heth, before all that went in at the gate of the city.

17 And after this,
Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah,
which is before Mamre; the same is called Hebron, in the land of
Canaan.

18 And the field and the
cave that was therein, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession
of a burying-place by the sons of Heth.

GENESIS
24

1 And now Abraham was
old, being well stricken in age; and the Lord had blessed Abraham in
all things.

2 And Abraham said unto
his eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all that he had; Put
forth I pray thee thy hand under my hand, and I will make thee swear
before the Lord, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that
thou shalt not take a wife unto my son, of the daughters of the
Canaanites among whom I dwell; but thou shalt go unto my country, and
to my kindred and take a wife unto my son Isaac.

3 And the servant said
unto him, Perhaps the woman will not be willing to follow me unto
this land, then I must needs bring thy son again unto the land from
whence thou camest.

4 And Abraham said unto
him, Beware thou that thou bring not my son thither again.

5 The Lord God of heaven
which took me from my father's house, and from the land of my
kindred, and which spake unto me, and that swear unto me, saying,
Unto thee will I give this land;

6 He shall send his angel
before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence.

7 And if the woman will
not be willing to follow thee, then thou shalt be clear from this
thine oath, only bring not my son thither again.

8 And the servant put his
hand under the hand of Abraham his master, and sware to him
concerning that matter.

9 And the servant took
ten camels of his master, and departed; for all the goods of his
master were in his hand.

10 And he arose and went
to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor.

11 And he made his camels
to kneel down without the city, by a well of water, at evening, the
time that women go out to draw water.

12 And he said, O Lord
God of my master Abraham, I pray thee this day, that thou wouldst
show kindness unto my master Abraham, and send me good speed.

13 Behold, I stand by the
well of water, and the daughters of the men of the city come out to
draw water;

14 And let it come to
pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher I
pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will
give thy camels drink also; let her be the one whom thou hast
appointed for thy servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou
hast showed kindness unto my master.

15 And it came to pass,
before he had done speaking, that behold, Rebekah came out, who was
born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother,
with her pitcher upon her shoulder.

16 And the damsel being a
virgin, very fair to look upon, such as the servant of Abraham had
not seen, neither had any man known the like unto her; and she went
down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up.

17 And the servant ran to
meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of thy
pitcher.

18 And she said, Drink,
my lord; and she hasted and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and
gave him drink.

19 And when she had done
giving him drink, she said, I will draw for thy camels also, until
they have done drinking.

20 And she hasted, and
emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again unto the well to
draw, and drew for all his camels.

21 And the man, wondering
at her, held his peace, pondering in his heart whether the Lord had
made his journey prosperous or not.

22 And it came to pass,
as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a gold earring of
half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels
weight of gold, and said, Whose daughter art thou? tell me, I pray
thee; and is there room in thy father's house for us to lodge in?

23 And she said unto him,
I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Milcah, which she bare unto
Nahor.

24 She said moreover,
unto him, We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge
in.

25 And the man bowed down
his head and worshiped the Lord.

26 And he said, Blessed
is the Lord God of my master Abraham, who hath not left my master
destitute of his mercy and his truth; and when I was in the way, the
Lord led me to the house of my master's brethren.

27 And the damsel ran to
the house, and told her mother these things.

28 And Rebekah had a
brother, whose name was Laban; and Laban ran out to the man, unto the
well.

29 And it came to pass
when he saw the earrings, and bracelets upon his sister's hands, and
when he heard the word of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the
man unto me, and I came unto the man, and behold, he stood by the
camels at the well.

30 And he said, Come in,
thou blessed of the Lord; wherefore standest thou without? for I have
prepared the house, and room for the camels.

31 And the man came into
the house.

32 And he unburdened his
camels, and gave straw and provender for the camels, and water to
wash his feet, and the men's feet that came with him.

33 And there was set
before him food to eat; but he said, I will not eat until I have told
mine errand.

34 And Laban said, Speak
on. And he said, I am Abraham's servant;

35 And the Lord hath
blessed my master greatly, and he is become great, and he hath given
him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold; and menservants, and
maidservants, and camels, and asses.

36 And Sarah, my master's
wife, bare a son to my master when she was old; and unto him hath he
given all that he hath.

37 And my master made me
swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife to my son of the daughters
of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell;

38 But thou shalt go unto
my father's house, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son.

39 And I said unto my
master, Perhaps the woman will not follow me.

40 And he said unto me,
The Lord, before whom I walk, will send his angel with thee, and he
will prosper thy way;

41 And thou shalt take a
wife for my son, of my kindred, and of my father's house; then shalt
thou be clear of my oath.

42 When thou comest to my
kindred, and if they give thee not a wife for my son, thou shalt be
clear from my oath.

43 And I came this day
unto the well, and said, O Lord God of my master Abraham, if now thou
wilt prosper my way which I go;

44 Behold, I stand by the
well of water; and it shall come to pass, that when the virgin cometh
forth to draw water, and I say to her, Give me I pray thee a little
water of thy pitcher to drink;

45 And if she say to me,
Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy camels; the same is the
woman whom the Lord hath appointed out for my master's son.

46 And before I had done
speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on
her shoulder, and she went down unto the well and drew water.

47 And I said unto her,
Let me drink I pray thee;

48 And she made haste,
and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, Drink, and I
will give thy camels drink also; so I drank, and she made the camels
drink also.

63 And they called
Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt thou go with this man?

64 And she said, I will
go. And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and
Abraham's servant, and his men.

65
And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, O thou, our sister, be
thou blessed of thousands
-- of
millions; and let thy seed possess the gate of those who hate them.

66 And Rebekah arose, and
her damsels, and they rode upon the camels, and followed the man; and
the servant took Rebekah and went his way.

67 And Isaac came from
the way of the well La-hai-roi; for he dwelt in the south country.

68 And Isaac went out to
meditate in the field at eventide; and he lifted up his eyes, and
saw, and behold the camels coming.

69 And Rebekah lifted up
her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel; for she
said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in the field to
meet us?

70 And the servant said,
It is my master; therefore she took a veil and covered herself.

71 And the servant told
Isaac all things that he had done.

72 And Isaac brought her
into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his
wife; and he loved her.

73 And Isaac was
comforted after his mother's death.

GENESIS
25

1 Then again Abraham took
a wife, and her name was Keturah.

2 And she bare him
Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.

3 And Jokshan begat
Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim,
and Leummim.

4 And the sons of Midian;
Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abidah, and Eldaah. All these were
the children of Keturah.

5 And Abraham gave all
that he had unto Isaac.

6 But unto the sons of
the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them
away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east
country.

7 And these are the
number of the years of Abraham's life, which he lived, a hundred
threescore and fifteen years.

8 Then Abraham gave up
the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years;
and was gathered to his people.

9 And his sons Isaac and
Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron
the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre;

10 The field which
Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth; there was Abraham buried, and
Sarah his wife.

11 And it came to pass
after the death of Abraham, that God blessed his son Isaac, and Isaac
dwelt by the well La-hai-roi.

12 Now these are the
generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian,
Sarah's handmaid, bare unto Abraham;

13 And these are the
names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, according to their
generations; the firstborn of Ishmael, Nebajoth; and Kedar, and
Adbeel, and Mibsam.

14 And Mishma, and Dumah,
and Massa.

15 Hadar, and Tema,
Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah;

16 These are the sons of
Ishmael, and these are their names, by their towns, and by their
castles; twelve princes according to their nations.

17 And these are the
number of the years of the life of Ishmael, a hundred and thirty and
seven years; and he gave up the ghost and died, and was gathered unto
his people.

18 And they dwelt from
Havilah unto Shur, that is before Egypt, as thou goest toward
Assyria; and he died in the presence of all his brethren.

19 And these are the
generations of Isaac, Abraham's son; Abraham begat Isaac;

20 And Isaac was forty
years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the
Syrian of Padan-aram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.

21 And Isaac entreated
the Lord for his wife, that she might bare children, because she was
barren. And the Lord was entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife
conceived.

22 And the children
struggled together within her womb; and she said, If I am with child,
why is it thus with me? And she went to inquire of the Lord.

23 And the Lord said unto
her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be
separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than
the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.

24 And when her days to
be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.

25 And the first came out
red, all over like a hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.

26 And after that came
his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name
was called Jacob; and Isaac was threescore years old when she bare
them.

27 And the boys grew; and
Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain
man, dwelling in tents.

28 And Isaac loved Esau,
because he did eat of his venison; but Rebekah loved Jacob.

29 And Jacob sod pottage;
and Esau came from the field, and he was faint;

30 And Esau said to
Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee, with that same red pottage; for I am
faint; therefore was his name called Edom.

31 And Jacob said, Sell
me this day thy birthright.

32 And Esau said, Behold,
I am at the point of dying; and what shall this birthright profit me?

33 And Jacob said, Swear
to me this day; and he swore unto him; and he sold his birthright
unto Jacob.

34 Then Jacob gave Esau
bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up,
and went his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright.

GENESIS
26

1 And there was a famine
in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of
Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto
Gerar.

2 And the Lord appeared
unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I
shall tell thee of.

3 Sojourn in this land,
and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto
thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the
oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;

4 And I will make thy
seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed
all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the
earth be blessed;

7 And the men of the
place asked him concerning his wife; and he said, She is my sister;
for he feared to say, She in my wife; lest, the men of the place
should kill him for to get Rebekah; because she was fair to look
upon.

8 And it came to pass,
when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the
Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was
sporting with Rebekah his wife.

9 And Abimelech called
Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety Rebekah is thy wife; and how
saidst thou she is thy sister? And Isaac said unto him, I said it
because I feared lest I die for her.

10 And Abimelech said,
What is this thou hast done unto us? one of the people might lightly
have lain with thy wife, and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness
upon us.

11 And Abimelech charged
all his people, saying, He that thoucheth this man or his wife shall
surely be put to death.

12 Then Isaac sowed in
that land, and received in the same year a hundredfold; and the Lord
blessed him.

13 And the man waxed
great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great;

14 For he had possession
of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants; and
the Philistines envied him.

15 For all the wells
which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham his
father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.

16 And Abimelech said
unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.

17 And Isaac departed
thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.

18 And Isaac digged again
the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his
father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of
Abraham, and he called their names after the names by which his
father had called them.

19 And Isaac's servants
digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.

20 And the herdman of
Gerar did strive with Isaac's herdmen, saying, The water is ours; and
he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him.

21 And they digged
another well, and strove for that also; and he called the name of it
Sitnah.

22 And he removed from
thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not; and he
called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the Lord hath
made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.

23 And he went up from
thence to Beer-sheba.

24 And the Lord appeared
unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy
father; fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and
multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake.

25 And he builded an
altar there, and called upon the name of the Lord, and pitched his
tent there; and there Isaac's servants digged a well.

26 Then Abimelech went to
him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the
chief captain of his army.

27 And Isaac said unto
them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me
away from you?

28 And they said, We saw
certainly that the Lord was with thee; and we said, Let there be now
an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a
covenant with thee;

29 That thou wilt do us
no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee
nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace; thou art now the
blessed of the Lord.

30 And he made them a
feast, and they did eat and drink.

31 And they rose up
betimes in the morning, and sware one to another; and Isaac sent them
away, and they departed from him in peace.

32 And it came to pass
the same day, That Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the
well which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found water.

33 And he called it
Sheba; therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba unto this day.

34 And Esau was forty
years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the
Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite;

35 Which was a grief of
mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.

GENESIS 27

1 And it came to pass,
that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not
see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto him, My son; and he
said unto him, Behold, here am I.

2 And he said, Behold,
now, I am old, I know not the day of my death;

3 Now therefore take, I
pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the
field, and take me some venison;

4 And make me savory
meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my
soul may bless thee before I die.

5 And Rebekah heard when
Isaac spake to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt for
venison, and to bring it.

7 Bring me venison, and
make me savory meat, that I may eat, and bless thee before the Lord
before my death.

8 Now therefore, my son,
obey my voice according to that which I command thee.

9 Go now to the flock,
and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats; and I will make
them savory meat for thy father, such as he loveth;

10 And thou shalt bring
it to thy father, that he may eat, and that he may bless thee before
his death.

11 And Jacob said to
Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am
a smooth man;

12 My father peradventure
will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall
bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.

13 And his mother said
unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son; only obey my voice, and go
fetch me them.

14 And he went, and
fetched, and brought them to his mother; and his mother made savory
meat, such as his father loved.

15 And Rebekah took
goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which were with her in the
house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son;

16 And she put the skins
of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his
neck;

17 And she gave the
savory meat and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of
her son Jacob.

18 And he came unto his
father, and said, My father; and he said, Here am I; who art thou, my
son?

19 And Jacob said unto
his father, I am Esau thy firstborn; I have done according as thou
badest me; arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy
soul may bless me.

20 And Isaac said unto
his son, How is it that thou hast found it so quickly, my son? And he
said, Because the Lord thy God brought it to me.

21 And Isaac said unto
Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may feel thee, my son, whether
thou be my very son Esau or not.

22 And Jacob went near
unto Isaac his father; and he felt him and said, The voice is Jacob's
voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.

23 And he discerned him
not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau's hands; so he
blessed him.

24 And he said, Art thou
my very son Esau? And he said, I am.

25 And he said, Bring it
near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may
bless thee. And he brought it near to him, and he did eat; and he
brought him wine, and he drank.

26 And his father Isaac
said unto him, Come near now, and kiss me, my son.

27 And he came near, and
kissed him; and he smelled the smell of his raiment, and blessed him,
and said, See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which
the Lord hath blessed;

28 Therefore God give
thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatness of the earth, and plenty
of corn and wine;

29 Let people serve thee,
and nations bow down to thee; be lord over thy brethren, and let thy
mother's sons bow down to thee; cursed be every one that curseth
thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.

30 And it came to pass,
as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet
scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his
brother came in from his hunting.

31 And he also had made
savory meat, and brought it unto his father, and said unto his
father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that thy
soul may bless me.

32 And Isaac his father
said unto him, Who art thou? And he said, I am thy son, thy
firstborn, Esau.

33 And Isaac trembled
very exceedingly, and said, Who? where is he that hath taken venison,
and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before thou camest, and
have blessed him? yea, and he shall be blessed.

34 And when Esau heard
the words of his father, he cried with a great and exceeding bitter
cry, and said unto his father, Bless me, even me also, O my father.

35 And he said, Thy
brother came with subtilty, and hath taken away thy blessing.

36 And he said, Is not he
rightly named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these two times; he
took away my birthright; and, behold, now he hath taken away my
blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?

37 And Isaac answered and
said unto Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his
brethren have I given to him for servants; and with corn and wine
have I sustained him; and what shall I do now unto thee, my son?

38 And Esau said unto his
father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father? bless me, even me
also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.

39 And Isaac his father
answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness
of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above;

40 And by thy sword shalt
thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass
when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke
from off thy neck.

41 And Esau hated Jacob
because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him; and Esau
said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand;
then will I slay my brother Jacob.

42 And these words of
Esau her elder son were told to Rebekah; and she sent and called
Jacob her younger son, and said unto him, Behold, thy brother Esau,
as touching thee, doth comfort himself, purposing to kill thee.

45 Until thy brother's
anger turn away from thee, and he forget that which thou hast done to
him; then I will send, and fetch thee from thence; why should I be
deprived also of you both in one day?

46 And Rebekah said to
Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth; if
Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are
of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?

GENESIS
28

1 And Isaac called Jacob,
and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not
take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

2 Arise, go to
Padan-aram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother's father; and take
thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother's
brother.

3 And God Almighty bless
thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be
a multitude of people;

4 And give thee the
blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou
mayest inherit the land wherein thou art a stranger, which God gave
unto Abraham.

5 And Isaac sent away
Jacob; and he went to Padan-aram unto Laban, son of Bethuel the
Syrian, the brother of Rebekah, Jacob's and Esau's mother.

6 When Esau saw that
Isaac had blessed Jacob, and sent him away to Padan-aram, to take him
a wife from thence; and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge,
saying, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan;

7 And that Jacob obeyed
his father and his mother, and was gone to Padan-aram;

8 And Esau seeing that
the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;

9 Then went Esau unto
Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he had Mahalath the daughter
of Ishmael Abraham's son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife.

10 And Jacob went out
from Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran.

11 And he lighted upon a
certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set;
and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his
pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.

12 And he dreamed, and
behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to
heaven; and behold the angels of God ascending and descending upon
it.

13 And, behold, the Lord
stood above it, and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father,
and the God of Isaac; the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I
give it, and to thy seed;

14 And thy seed shall be
as the dust of the earth; and thou shalt spread abroad to the west,
and to the east, and to the north, and to the south; and in thee and
in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

15 And, behold, I am with
thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will
bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I
have done that which I have spoken to thee of.

16 And Jacob awaked out
of his sleep, and he said, Surely the Lord is in this place; and I
knew it not.

17 And he was afraid, and
said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of
God, and this is the gate of heaven.

18 And Jacob rose up
early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his
pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of
it.

19 And he called the name
of that place Beth-el; but the name of that city was called Luz at
the first.

20 And Jacob vowed a vow,
saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I
go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on,

21 So that I come again
to my father's house in peace; then shall the Lord be my God;

22 And the place of this
stone which I have set for a pillar, shall be the place of God's
house; and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the
tenth unto thee.

GENESIS
29

1 Then Jacob went on his
journey, and came into the land of the people of the east.

2 And he looked, and
behold a well in the field, and, lo, there were three flocks of sheep
lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks; and a
great stone was upon the well's mouth.

3 And thither were all
the flocks gathered; and they rolled the stone from the well's mouth,
and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the well's mouth
in his place.

4 And Jacob said unto
them, My brethren, from whence are ye? And they said, From Haran.

5 And he said unto them,
Know ye Laban the son of Nahor? And they said, We know him.

6 And he said unto them,
Is he well? And they said, He is well; and, behold, Rachel, his
daughter cometh with the sheep.

7 And he said, Lo, it is
yet high day, neither is it time that the cattle should be gathered
together; water ye the sheep, and go and feed them.

8 And they said, We
cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together, and till they roll
the stone from the well's mouth; then we water the sheep.

9 And while he yet spake
with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep; for she kept them.

10 And it came to pass,
when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother's brother, and
the sheep of Laban his mother's brother, that Jacob went near, and
rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the flock of
Laban his mother's brother.

11 And Jacob kissed
Rachel, and lifted up his voice, and wept.

12 And Jacob told Rachel
that he was her father's brother, and that he was Rebekah's son; and
she ran and told her father.

13 And it came to pass,
when Laban heard the tidings of Jacob his sister's son, that he ran
to meet him, and embraced him, and kissed him, and brought him to his
house. And he told Laban all these things.

14 And Laban said to him,
Surely thou art my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him the space
of a month.

16 And Laban had two
daughters; the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the
younger was Rachel.

17 Leah was tender-eyed;
but Rachel was beautiful and well-favored.

18 And Jacob loved
Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy
younger daughter.

19 And Laban said, It is
better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to
another man; abide with me.

20 And Jacob served seven
years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the
love he had to her.

21 And Jacob said unto
Laban, Give unto me my wife, that I may go and take her, for my days
of serving thee are fulfilled.

22 And Laban gave her to
Jacob, and gathered together all the men of the place, and made a
feast.

23 And it came to pass in
the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to
Jacob, and she went in and slept with him.

24 And Laban gave unto
his daughter Leah, Zilpah, his handmaid, to be a handmaid for her.

25 And it came to pass,
that in the morning, behold, it was Leah; and he said to Laban, What
is this thou hast done unto me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel?
wherefore then hast thou beguiled me?

26 And Laban said, It
must not be so done in our country, to give the younger before the
firstborn.

27 Fulfill her week, and
we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve
with me yet seven other years.

28 And Jacob did so, and
fulfilled her week; and he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.

29 And Laban gave to
Rachel his daughter, Bilhah, his handmaid, to be her maid.

30 And he went in also
and slept with Rachel, and he loved Rachel also, more than Leah, and
served with Laban yet seven other years.

31 And when the Lord saw
that Leah was hated, he opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.

32 And Leah conceived,
and bare a son; and she called his name Reuben; for she said, Surely
the Lord hath looked upon my affliction; now therefore my husband
will love me.

33 And she conceived
again, and bare a son; and said, Because the Lord hath heard that I
was hated, he hath therefore given me this son also; and she called
his name Simeon.

34 And she conceived
again, and bare a son; and said, Now this time will my husband be
joined unto me, because I have borne him three sons; therefore was
his name called Levi.

35 And she conceived
again, and bare a son; and she said, Now will I praise the Lord;
therefore she called his name Judah; and left bearing.

GENESIS
30

1 And when Rachel saw
that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said
unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.

2 And Jacob's anger was
kindled against Rachel; and he said, Am I in God's stead, who hath
withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?

3 And she said, Behold my
maid Bilhah, go in and lie with her; and she shall bear upon my
knees, that I may also have children by her.

4 And she gave him Bilhah
her handmaid to wife; and Jacob went and lay with her.

5 And Bilhah conceived,
and bare Jacob a son.

6 And Rachel said, God
hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a
son; therefore called she his name Dan.

7 And Bilhah Rachel's
maid conceived again, and bare Jacob a second son.

8 And Rachel said, With
great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have
prevailed; and she called his name Naphtali.

9 When Leah saw that she
had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her unto Jacob
to wife.

10 And Zilpah Leah's maid
bare Jacob a son.

11 And Leah said, A troop
cometh; and she called his name Gad.

12 And Zilpah Leah's maid
bare Jacob a second son.

13 And Leah said, Happy
am I, for the daughters will call me blessed; and she called his name
Asher.

14 And Reuben went in the
days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought
them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray
thee, of thy son's mandrakes.

15 And she said unto her,
Is it a small matter that thou hast taken my husband? and wouldest
thou take away my son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he
shall lie with thee tonight for thy son's mandrakes.

16 And Jacob came out of
the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said,
Thou must come in and lie with me; for surely I have hired thee with
my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.

17 And God hearkened unto
Leah, and she conceived, and bare Jacob the fifth son.

18 And Leah said, God
hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband;
and she called his name Issachar.

19 And Leah conceived
again, and bare Jacob the sixth son.

20 And Leah said, God
hath endued me with a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me,
because I have borne him six sons; and she called his name Zebulun.

21 And afterwards she
bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah.

22 And God remembered
Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.

23 And she conceived, and
bare a son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach;

24 And she called his
name Joseph; and said, The Lord shall add to me another son.

25 And it came to pass,
when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said unto Laban, Send me
away, that I may go unto mine own place, and to my country.

26 Give me my wives and
my children, for whom I have served thee, and let me go; for thou
knowest my service which I have done thee.

27 And Laban said unto
him, I pray thee, if I have found favor in thine eyes, tarry; for I
have learned by experience that the Lord hath blessed me for thy
sake.

28 And he said, Appoint
me thy wages, and I will give it.

29 And he said unto him,
Thou knowest how I have served thee and how thy cattle was with me.

30 For it was little
which thou hadst before I came, and it is now increased unto a
multitude; and the Lord hath blessed thee since my coming; and now,
when shall I provide for mine own house also?

31 And he said, What
shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me anything;
if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed and keep thy
flock.

32 I will pass through
all thy flock today, removing from thence all the speckled and
spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the
spotted and speckled among the goats; and of such shall be my hire.

33 So shall my
righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for
my hire before thy face; every one that is not speckled and spotted
among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted
stolen with me.

34 And Laban said,
Behold, I would it might be according to thy word.

35 And he removed that
day the he goats that were ringstreaked and spotted, and all the she
goats that were speckled and spotted, and every one that had some
white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave them into
the hand of his sons.

36 And he set three days'
journey betwixt himself and Jacob; and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's
flocks.

37 And Jacob took him
rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chestnut tree; and pilled
white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the
rods.

38 And he set the rods
which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering
troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when
they came to drink.

39 And the flocks
conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstreaked,
speckled, and spotted.

40 And Jacob did separate
the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstreaked,
and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by
themselves, and put them not unto Laban's cattle.

41 And it came to pass,
whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods
before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might
conceive among the rods.

42 But when the cattle
were feeble, he put them not in; so the feebler were Laban's, and the
stronger Jacob's.

43 And the man increased
exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants,
and camels, and asses.

GENESIS
31

1 And he heard the words
of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our
father's; and of that which was our father's hath he gotten all this
glory.

2 And Jacob beheld the
countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.

3 And the Lord said unto
Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I
will be with thee.

4 And Jacob sent and
called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock,

5 And said unto them, I
see your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as before;
but the God of my father hath been with me.

6 And ye know that with
all my power I have served your father.

7 And your father hath
deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not
to hurt me.

8 If he said thus, The
speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle bare speckled; and
it he said thus, The ringstreaked shall be thy hire; then bare all
the cattle ringstreaked.

9 Thus God hath taken
away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.

10 And it came to pass at
the time that the cattle conceived, that I lifted up mine eyes, and
saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle
were ringstreaked, speckled, and grizzled.

11 And the angel of God
spake unto me in a dream, saying, Jacob; and I said, Here am I.

12 And he said, Lift up
now thine eyes, and see, all the rams which leap upon the cattle are
ringstreaked, speckled, and grizzled; for I have seen all that Laban
doeth unto thee.

13 I am the God of
Beth-el, where thou anointedst the pillar, and where thou vowedst a
vow unto me; now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto
the land of thy kindred.

14 And Rachel and Leah
answered and said unto him, Is there yet any portion or inheritance
for us in our father's house?

15 Are we not counted of
him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our
money.

16 For all the riches
which God hath taken from our father, that is ours, and our
children's; now then whatsoever God hath said unto thee, do.

17 Then Jacob rose up,
and set his sons and his wives upon camels;

18 And he carried away
all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of
his getting, which he had gotten in Padan- aram, for to go to Isaac
his father in the land of Canaan.

19 And Laban went to
shear his sheep; and Rachel had stolen the images that were her
father's.

20 And Jacob stole away
unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled.

21 So he fled with all
that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the river, and set his
face toward the mount Gilead.

22 And it was told Laban
on the third day, that Jacob had fled.

23 And he took his
brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey; and
they overtook him in the mount Gilead.

24 And God came to Laban
the Syrian in a dream by night, and said unto him, Take heed that
thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.

25 Then Laban overtook
Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount; and Laban with
his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead.

26 And Laban said to
Jacob, What hast thou done, that thou hast stolen away unawares to
me, and carried away my daughters, as captives taken with the sword?

27 Wherefore didst thou
flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me,
that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with
tabret, and with harp?

28 And hast not suffered
me to kiss my sons and my daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in
so doing.

29 It is in the power of
my hand to do you hurt; but the God of your father spake unto me
yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob
either good or bad.

31 And Jacob answered and
said to Laban, Because I was afraid; for I said, Peradventure thou
wouldest take by force thy daughters from me.

32 With whomsoever thou
findest thy gods, let him not live; before our brethren discern thou
what is thine with me, and take it to thee. For Jacob knew not that
Rachel had stolen them.

33 And Laban went into
Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the two maidservants'
tents; but he found them not. Then went he out of Leah's tent, and
entered into Rachel's tent.

34 Now Rachel had taken
the images, and put them in the camel's furniture, and sat upon them.
And Laban searched all the tent, but found them not.

35 And she said to her
father, Let it not displease my lord that I cannot rise up before
thee; for the custom of women is upon me. And he searched, but found
not the images.

36 And Jacob was wroth,
and chode with Laban; and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What is
my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after
me?

37 Whereas thou hast
searched all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household
stuff? set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may
judge betwixt us both.

38 This twenty years have
I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their
young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.

39 That which was torn of
beasts I brought not unto thee; I bare the loss of it; of my hand
didst thou require it, whether stolen by day, or stolen by night.

40 Thus I was; in the day
the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep
departed from mine eyes.

41 Thus have I been
twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two
daughters, and six years for thy cattle; and thou hast changed my
wages ten times.

42 Except the God of my
father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me,
surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen my affliction
and the labor of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.

43 And Laban answered and
said unto Jacob, These daughters are my daughters, and these children
are my children, and these cattle are my cattle, and all that thou
seest is mine; and what can I do this day unto these my daughters, or
unto their children which they have borne?

44 Now therefore come
thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness
between me and thee.

45 And Jacob took a
stone, and set it up for a pillar.

46 And Jacob said unto
his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made a heap;
and they did eat there upon the heap.

47 And Laban called it
Jegarsahadutha; but Jacob called it Galeed.

48 And Laban said, This
heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the
name of it called Galeed,

49 And Mizpah; for he
said, The Lord watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from
another.

50 It thou shalt afflict
my daughters, or if thou shalt take other wives beside my daughters,
no man is with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee.

51 And Laban said to
Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this pillar, which I have cast
betwixt me and thee;

52 This heap be witness,
and this pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this heap to
thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar
unto me, for harm.

53 The God of Abraham,
and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us. And
Jacob sware by the fear of his father Isaac.

54 Then Jacob offered
sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread; and
they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mount.

55 And early in the
morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and
blessed them; and Laban departed, and returned unto his place.

GENESIS
32

1 And Jacob went on his
way, and the angels of God met him.

2 And when Jacob saw
them, he said, This is God's host; and he called the name of that
place Mahanaim.

3 And Jacob sent
messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the
country of Edom.

16 And he delivered them
into the hand of his servants, every drove by themselves; and said
unto his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove
and drove.

17 And he commanded the
foremost, saying, When Esau my brother meeteth thee, and asketh thee,
saying, Whose art thou? and whither goest thou? and whose are these
before thee?

18 And thou shalt say,
They be thy servant Jacob's; it is a present sent unto my lord Esau;
and, behold, also he is behind us.

19 And so commanded he
the second and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying,
On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him.

20 And say ye moreover,
Behold, thy servant Jacob is behind us. For he said I will appease
him with the present that goeth before me, and afterward I will see
his face; peradventure he will accept of me.

21 So went the present
over before him; and himself lodged that night in the company.

22 And he rose up that
night, and took his two wives, and his two womenservants, and his
eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok.

23 And he took them, and
sent them over the brook, and sent over that he had.

24 And Jacob was left
alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the
day.

25 And when he saw that
he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and
the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with
him.

26 And he said, Let me
go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except
thou bless me.

27 And he said unto him,
What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.

28 And he said, Thy name
shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel; for as a prince hast thou
power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.

29 And Jacob asked him,
and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is
it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.

30 And Jacob called the
name of the place Peniel; for I have seen God face to face, and my
life is preserved.

31 And as he passed over
Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.

32 Therefore the children
of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow
of the thigh, unto this day; because he touched the hollow of Jacob's
thigh in the sinew that shrank.

GENESIS 33

1 And Jacob lifted up his
eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau came, and with him four hundred
men. And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto
the two handmaids.

2 And he put the
handmaids and their children foremost, and Leah and her children
after, and Rachel and Joseph hindermost.

3 And he passed over
before them, and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he
came near to his brother.

4 And Esau ran to meet
him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him; and they
wept.

5 And he lifted up his
eyes, and saw the women and the children, and said, Who are those
with thee? And he said, The children which God hath graciously given
thy servant.

6 Then the handmaidens
came near, they and their children, and they bowed themselves.

7 And Leah also with her
children came near, and bowed themselves; and after came Joseph near
and Rachel, and they bowed themselves.

8 And he said, What
meanest thou by all this drove which I met? And he said, These are to
find grace in the sight of my lord.

10 And Jacob said, Nay, I
pray thee, if now I have found grace in thy sight, then receive my
present at my hand; for therefore I have seen thy face, as though I
had seen the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me.

11 Take, I pray thee, my
blessing that is brought to thee; because God hath dealt graciously
with me, and because I have enough. And he urged him, and he took it.

12 And he said, Let us
take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before thee.

13 And he said unto him,
My lord knoweth that the children are tender, and the flocks and
herds with young are with me; and if men should overdrive them one
day, all the flock will die.

14 Let my lord, I pray
thee, pass over before his servant; and I will lead on softly,
according as the cattle that goeth before me and the children be able
to endure, until I come unto my lord unto Seir.

15 And Esau said, Let me
now leave with thee some of the folk that are with me. And he said,
What needeth it? let me find grace in the sight of my lord.

16 So Esau returned that
day on his way unto Seir.

17 And Jacob journeyed to
Succoth, and built him a house, and made booths for his cattle;
therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.

18 And Jacob came to
Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he
came from Padan-aram; and pitched his tent before the city.

19 And he bought a parcel
of a field, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children
of Hamor, Shechem's father, for a hundred pieces of money.

20 And he erected there
an altar, and called it El-Elohe-Israel.

GENESIS 34

1 And Dinah the daughter
of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of
the land.

2 And when Shechem the
son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her,
and lay with her, and defiled her.

3 And his soul clave unto
Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spake
kindly unto the damsel.

4 And Shechem spake unto
his father Hamor, saying, Get me this damsel to wife.

5 And Jacob heard that he
had defiled Dinah his daughter; now his sons were with his cattle in
the field; and Jacob held his peace until they were come.

6 And Hamor the father of
Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune with him.

7 And the sons of Jacob
came out of the field when they heard it; and the men were grieved,
and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in
lying with Jacob's daughter; which thing ought not to be done.

8 And Hamor communed with
them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter; I
pray you give her him to wife.

9 And make ye marriages
with us, and give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto
you.

10 And ye shall dwell
with us; and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye
therein, and get you possessions therein.

11 And Shechem said unto
her father and unto her brethren, Let me find grace in your eyes, and
what ye shall say unto me I will give.

12 Ask me never so much
dowry and gift, and I will give according as ye shall say unto me;
but give me the damsel to wife.

13 And the sons of Jacob
answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because
he had defiled Dinah their sister;

14 And they said unto
them, We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one that is
uncircumcised; for that were a reproach unto us;

15 But in this will we
consent unto you; If ye will be as we be, that every male of you be
circumcised;

16 Then will we give our
daughters unto you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we
will dwell with you, and we will become one people.

17 But if ye will not
hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then will we take our daughter,
and we will be gone.

18 And their words
pleased Hamor and Shechem Hamor's son.

19 And the young man
deferred not to do the thing, because he had delight in Jacob's
daughter; and he was more honorable than all the house of his father.

20 And Hamor and Shechem
his son came unto the gate of their city, and communed with the men
of their city, saying,

21 These men are
peaceable with us; therefore let them dwell in the land, and trade
therein; for the land, behold, it is large enough for them; let us
take their daughters to us for wives, and let us give them our
daughters.

22 Only herein will the
men consent unto us for to dwell with us, to be one people, if every
male among us be circumcised, as they are circumcised.

23 Shall not their cattle
and their substance and every beast of theirs be ours? only let us
consent unto them, and they will dwell with us.

24 And unto Hamor and
unto Shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the gate of his
city; and every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate
of his city.

25 And it came to pass on
the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob,
Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came
upon the city boldly, and slew all the males.

26 And they slew Hamor
and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of
Shechem's house, and went out.

27 The sons of Jacob came
upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their
sister.

28 They took their sheep,
and their oxen, and their asses, and that which was in the city, and
that which was in the field,

29 And all their wealth,
and all their little ones, and their wives took they captive, and
spoiled even all that was in the house.

30 And Jacob said to
Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the
inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites; and
I being few in number, they shall gather themselves together against
me, and slay me; and I shall be destroyed, I and my house.

31 And they said, Should
he deal with our sister as with a harlot?

GENESIS 35

1 And God said unto
Jacob, Arise, go up to Beth-el, and dwell there; and make there an
altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the
face of Esau thy brother.

2 Then Jacob said unto
his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange
gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments;

3 And let us arise, and
go up to Beth-el; and I will make there an altar unto God, who
answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way
which I went.

4 And they gave unto
Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their
earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak
which was by Shechem.

5 And they journeyed; and
the terror of God was upon the cities that were round about them, and
they did not pursue after the sons of Jacob.

6 So Jacob came to Luz
which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Beth-el, he and all the
people that were with him.

7 And he built there an
altar, and called the place El-beth-el; because there God appeared
unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.

8 But Deborah Rebekah's
nurse died, and she was buried beneath Beth-el under an oak; and the
name of it was called Allonbachuth.

9 And God appeared unto
Jacob again, when he came out of Padanaram, and blessed him.

10 And God said unto him,
Thy name is Jacob; thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but
Israel shall be thy name; and he called his name Israel.

11 And God said unto him,
I am God Almighty; be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company
of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;

12 And the land which I
gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after
thee will I give the land.

13 And God went up from
him in the place where he talked with him.

14 And Jacob set up a
pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone;
and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon.

15 And Jacob called the
name of the place where God spake with him, Beth-el.

16 And they journeyed
from Beth-el; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath; and
Rachel travailed, and she had hard labor.

17 And it came to pass,
when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not;
thou shalt have this son also.

18 And it came to pass,
as her soul was in departing, (for she died,) that she called his
name Ben-oni; but his father called him Benjamin.

19 And Rachel died, and
was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.

20 And Jacob set a pillar
upon her grave; that is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.

21 And Israel journeyed,
and spread his tent beyond the tower of Edar.

22 And it came to pass,
when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah
his father's concubine; and Israel heard it. Now the sons of Jacob
were twelve;

23 The sons of Leah;
Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and
Issachar, and Zebulun;

24 The sons of Rachel;
Joseph, and Benjamin;

25 And the sons of
Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali;

26 And the sons of
Zilpah, Leah's handmaid; Gad, and Asher. These are the sons of Jacob,
which were born to him in Padan-aram.

27 And Jacob came unto
Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city of Arba, which is Hebron,
where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.

28 And the days of Isaac
were a hundred and fourscore years.

29 And Isaac gave up the
ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people, being old and full
of days; and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

GENESIS 36

1 Now these are the
generations of Esau, who is Edom.

2 Esau took his wives of
the daughters of Canaan; Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and
Aholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite;

3 And Bashemath Ishmael's
daughter, sister of Nebajoth.

4 And Adah bare to Esau
Eliphaz; and Bashemath bare Reuel;

5 And Aholibamah bare
Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah; these are the sons of Esau, which were
born unto him in the land of Canaan.

6 And Esau took his
wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the persons of his
house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his substance,
which he had got in the land of Canaan; and went into the country
from the face of his brother Jacob.

7 For their riches were
more than that they might dwell together; and the land wherin they
were strangers could not bear them because of their cattle.

8 Thus dwelt Esau in
mount Seir; Esau is Edom.

9 And these are the
generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in mount Seir;

10 These are the names of
Esau's sons; Eliphaz the son of Adah the wife of Esau, Reuel the son
of Bashemath the wife of Esau.

11 And the sons of
Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz.

12 And Timna was
concubine to Eliphaz Esau's son; and she bare to Eliphaz Amalek;
these were the sons of Adah Esau's wife.

13 And these are the sons
of Reuel; Nahath, and Zerah, Shammah, and Mizzah; these were the sons
of Bashemath Esau's wife.

14 And these were the
sons of Aholibamah, the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon,
Esau's wife; and she bare to Esau Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah.

15 These were dukes of
the sons of Esau; the sons of Eliphaz the firstborn son of Esau; duke
Teman, duke Omar, duke Zepho, duke Kenaz,

16 Duke Korah, duke
Gatam, and duke Amalek; these are the dukes that came of Eliphaz in
the land of Edom; these were the sons of Adah.

17 And these are the sons
of Reuel Esau's son; duke Nahath, duke Zerah, duke Shammah, duke
Mizzah; these are the dukes that came of Reuel in the land of Edom;
these are the sons of Bashemath Esau's wife.

18 And these are the sons
of Aholibamah Esau's wife; duke Jeush, duke Jaalam, duke Korah; these
were the dukes that came of Aholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau's
wife.

19 These are the sons of
Esau, who is Edom, and these are their dukes.

20 These are the sons of
Seir the Horite, who inhabited the land; Lotan, and Shobal, and
Zibeon, and Anah,

21 And Dishon, and Ezer,
and Dishan; these are the dukes of the Horites, the children of Seir
in the land of Edom.

22 And the children of
Lotan were Hori and Hemam; and Lotan's sister was Timna.

23 And the children of
Shobal were these; Alvan, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.

24 And these are the
children of Zibeon; both Ajah, and Anah; this was that Anah that
found the mules in the wilderness, as he fed the asses of Zibeon his
father.

25 And the children of
Anah were these; Dishon, and Abholibamah the daughter of Anah.

26 And these are the
children of Dishon; Hemdan, and Eshban, and Ithran, and Cheran.

27 The children of Ezer
are these; Bilhan, and Zaavan, and Akan.

28 The children of Dishan
are these; Uz, and Aran.

29 These are the dukes
that came of the Horites; duke Lotan, duke Shobal, duke Zibeon, duke
Anah,

30 Duke Dishon, duke
Ezer, duke Dishan; these are the dukes that came of Hori, among their
dukes in the land of Seir.

31 And these are the
kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king
over the children of Israel.

32 And Bela the son of
Beor reigned in Edom; and the name of his city was Dinhabah.

33 And Bela died, and
Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead.

34 And Jobab died, and
Husham of the land of Temani reigned in his stead.

35 And Husham died, and
Hadad the son of Bedad, who smote Midian in the field of Moab,
reigned in his stead; and the name of his city was Avith.

36 And Hadad died, and
Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead.

37 And Samlah died, and
Saul of Rehoboth by the river reigned in his stead.

38 And Saul died, and
Baal-hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead.

39 And Baal-hanan the son
of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his stead; and the name of his
city was Pau; and his wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of
Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.

40 And these are the
names of the dukes that came of Esau, according to their families,
after their places, by their names; duke Timnah, duke Alvah, duke
Jetheth,

41 Duke Aholibamah, duke
Elah, duke Pinon,

42 Duke Kenaz, duke
Teman, duke Mibzar,

43 Duke Magdiel, duke
Iram; these be the dukes of Edom, according to their habitations in
the land of their possession; he is Esau the father of the Edomites.

GENESIS
37

1 And Jacob dwelt in the
land wherein his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan.

2 And this is the history
of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was
feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad was with the sons of
Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives; and Joseph
brought unto his father their evil report.

3 Now Israel loved Joseph
more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age;
and he made him a coat of many colors.

4 And when his brethren
saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they
hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.

5 And Joseph dreamed a
dream, and he told it his brethren; and they hated him yet the more.

6 And he said unto them,
Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed;

8 And his brethren said
to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have
dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and
for his words.

9 And he dreamed yet
another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have
dreamed a dream more; and behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven
stars made obeisance to me.

10 And he told it to his
father, and to his brethren; and his father rebuked him, and said
unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy
mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to
the earth?

11 And his brethren
envied him; but his father observed the saying.

12 And his brethren went
to feed their father's flock in Shechem.

13 And Israel said unto
Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed the flock in Shechem? come, and I
will send thee unto them. And he said to him, Here am I.

14 And he said to him,
Go, I pray thee, see whether it be well with thy brethren, and well
with the flocks; and bring me word again. So he sent him out of the
vale of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.

15 And a certain man
found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field; and the man
asked him, saying, What seekest thou?

16 And he said, I seek my
brethren; tell me, I pray thee, where they feed their flocks.

17 And the man said, They
are departed hence; for I heard them say, Let us go to Dothan. And
Joseph went after his brethren and found them in Dothan.

18 And when they saw him
afar off, even before he came near unto them, they conspired against
him to slay him.

19 And they said one to
another, Behold, this dreamer cometh.

20 Come now therefore,
and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say,
Some evil beast hath devoured him; and we shall see what will become
of his dreams.

21 And Reuben heard it,
and he delivered him out of their hands; and said, Let us not kill
him.

22 And Reuben said unto
them, Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit that is in the
wilderness, and lay no hand upon him; that he might rid him out of
their hands, to deliver him to his father again.

23 And it came to pass,
when Joseph was come unto his brethren, that they stripped Joseph out
of his coat, his coat of many colors that was on him;

24 And they took him, and
cast him into a pit; and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.

25 And they sat down to
eat bread; and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a
company of Ishmaelites came from Gilead, with their camels bearing
spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.

26 And Judah said unto
his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother, and conceal
his blood?

27 Come, and let us sell
him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he is
our brother and our flesh; and his brethren were content.

28 Then there passed by
Midianites merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the
pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver;
and they brought Joseph into Egypt.

29 And Reuben returned
unto the pit; and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit; and he rent his
clothes.

30 And he returned unto
his brethren, and said, The child is not; and I, whither shall I go?

31 And they took Joseph's
coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the
blood;

32 And they sent the coat
of many colors, and they brought it to their father; and said, This
have we found; know now whether it be thy son's coat or no.

33 And he knew it, and
said, It is my son's coat; an evil beast hath devoured him; Joseph is
without doubt rent in pieces.

34 And Jacob rent his
clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son
many days.

35 And all his sons and
all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be
comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son
mourning. Thus his father wept for him.

36 And the Midianites
sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, and
captain of the guard.

GENESIS
38

1 And it came to pass at
that time, that Judah went down from his brethren, and turned into a
certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.

2 And Judah saw there a
daughter of a certain Canaanite, whose name was Shuah; and he took
her, and went in and lay with her.

3 And she conceived, and
bare a son; and he called his name Er.

4 And she conceived
again, and bare a son; and she called his name Onan.

5 And she yet again
conceived, and bare a son; and called his name Shelah; and he was at
Chezib, when she bare him.

6 And Judah took a wife
for Er his firstborn, whose name was Tamar.

7 And Er, Judah's
firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the Lord; and the Lord slew
him.

9 And Onan knew that the
seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he married his
brother's wife, that he would not lie with her, lest he should raise
up seed unto his brother.

10 And the thing which he
did displeased the Lord; wherefore he slew him also.

11 Then said Judah to
Tamar his daughter-in-law, Remain a widow at thy father's house, till
Shelah my son be grown; for he said, Lest peradventure he die also,
as his brethren did. And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.

12 And in process of time
the daughter of Shuah Judah's wife died; and Judah was comforted, and
went up unto his sheepshearers to Timnath, he and his friend Hirah
the Adullamite.

13 And it was told Tamar,
saying, Behold, thy father-in-law goeth up to Timnath to shear his
sheep.

14 And she put her
widow's garments off from her, and covered her with a veil, and
wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which is by the way to
Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given
unto him to wife.

15 When Judah saw her, he
thought her to be a harlot; because she had covered her face.

16 And he turned unto her
by the way, and said, Go to, I pray thee, let me come in and lie with
thee; (for he knew not that she was his daughter-in-law;) and she
said, What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come in and lie with
me?

17 And he said, I will
send thee a kid from the flock. And she said, Wilt thou give me a
pledge, till thou send it?

18 And he said, What
pledge shall I give thee? And she said, Thy signet, and thy
bracelets, and thy staff that is in thine hand. And he gave it her,
and came in and slept with her, and she conceived by him.

19 And she arose, and
went away, and laid by her veil from her, and put on the garments of
her widowhood.

20 And Judah sent the kid
by the hand of his friend the Adullamite, to receive his pledge from
the woman's hand; but he found her not.

21 Then he asked the men
of that place, saying, Where is the harlot, that was openly by the
wayside? And they said, There was no harlot in this place.

22 And he returned to
Judah, and said, I cannot find her; and also the men of the place
said, that there was no harlot in this place.

23 And Judah said, Let
her take it to her, lest we be shamed; behold, I sent this kid, and
thou hast not found her.

24 And it came to pass
about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy
daughter-in-law hath played the harlot; and also, behold, she is with
child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be
burnt.

25 When she was brought
forth, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, Buy the man, whose
these are, am I with child; and she said, Discern, I pray thee, whose
are these, the signet, and bracelets, and staff.

26 And Judah acknowledged
them, and said, She hath been more righteous than I; because that I
gave her not to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more.

27 And it came to pass in
the time of her travail, that, behold, twins were in her womb.

28 And it came to pass,
when she travailed, that the one put out his hand; and the midwife
took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread saying, This came out
first.

29 And it came to pass,
as he drew back his hand, that, behold, his brother came out; and she
said, How hast thou broken forth? this breach be upon thee; therefore
his name was called Pharez.

30 And afterward came out
his brother, that had the scarlet thread upon his hand; and his name
was called Zarah.

GENESIS
39

1 And Joseph was brought
down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the
guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ishmaelites, which
had brought him down thither.

2 And the Lord was with
Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his
master the Egyptian.

3 And his master saw that
the Lord was with him, and that the Lord made all that he did to
prosper in his hand.

4 And Joseph found grace
in his sight, and he served him; and he made him overseer over his
house, and all that he had he put into his hand.

5 And it came to pass
from the time that he had made him overseer in his house, and over
all that he had, that the Lord blessed the Egyptian's house for
Joseph's sake; and the blessing of the Lord was upon all that he had
in the house, and in the field.

6 And he left all that he
had in Joseph's hand; and he knew not aught he had, save the bread
which he did eat. And Joseph was a goodly person, and well favored.

7 And it came to pass
after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph;
and she said, Lie with me.

8 But he refused, and
said unto his master's wife, Behold, my master knoweth not what is
with me in the house, and he hath committed all that he hath to my
hand;

9 There is none greater
in this house than I; neither hath he kept back anything from me but
thee, because thou art his wife; how then can I do this great
wickedness, and sin against God?

10 And it came to pass,
as she spake to Joseph day by day, that he hearkened not unto her, to
lie by her, or to be with her.

11 And it came to pass
about this time, that Joseph went into the house to do his business;
and there was none of the men of the house there within.

12 And she caught him by
his garment, saying, Lie with me; and he left his garment in her
hand, and fled, and got him out.

13 And it came to pass,
when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and was fled
forth,

14 That she called unto
the men of her house, and spake unto them, saying, See, he hath
brought in a Hebrew unto us to mock us; he came in unto me to lie
with me, and I cried with a loud voice;

15 And it came to pass,
when he heard that I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his
garment with me, and fled, and got him out.

16 And she laid up his
garment by her, until his lord came home.

17 And she spake unto him
according to these words, saying, The Hebrew servant, which thou hast
brought unto us, came in unto me to mock me;

18 And it came to pass,
as I lifted up my voice and cried, that he left his garment with me,
and fled out.

19 And it came to pass,
when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spake unto
him, saying, After this manner did thy servant to me; that his wrath
was kindled.

20 And Joseph's master
took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king's
prisoners were bound; and he was there in the prison.

21 But the Lord was with
Joseph, and showed him mercy, and gave him favor in the sight of the
keeper of the prison.

22 And the keeper of the
prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners that were in the
prison; and whatsoever they did there, he was the overseer of it.

23 The keeper of the
prison looked not to anything that was under his hand; because the
Lord was with him, and that which he did, the Lord made it to
prosper.

GENESIS 40

1 And it came to pass
after these things, that the butler of the king of Egypt and his
baker had offended their lord the king of Egypt.

2 And Pharaoh was wroth
against two of his officers, against the chief of the butlers, and
against the chief of the bakers.

3 And he put them in ward
in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place
where Joseph was bound.

4 And the captain of the
guard charged Joseph with them, and he served them; and they
continued a season in ward.

5 And they dreamed a
dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man
according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the
baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound in the prison.

6 And Joseph came in unto
them in the morning, and looked upon them, and, behold, they were
sad.

7 And he asked Pharaoh's
officers that were with him in the ward of his lord's house, saying,
Wherefore look ye so sadly today?

8 And they said unto him,
We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. And
Joseph said unto them, Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell me
them, I pray you.

9 And the chief butler
told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my dream, behold, a
vine was before me;

10 And in the vine were
three branches; and it was as though it budded, and her blossoms shot
forth; and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes;

11 And Pharaoh's cup was
in my hand; and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh's
cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand.

12 And Joseph said unto
him, This is the interpretation of it; The three branches are three
days;

13 Yet within three days
shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy place;
and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand, after the former
manner when thou wast his butler.

14 But think on me when
it shall be well with thee, and show kindness, I pray thee, unto me,
and make mention of me unto Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house;

15 For indeed I was
stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews; and here also have I done
nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.

16 When the chief baker
saw that the interpretation was good, he said unto Joseph, I also was
in my dream, and, behold, I had three white baskets on my head;

17 And in the uppermost
basket there was of all manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh; and the
birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head.

18 And Joseph answered
and said, This is the interpretation thereof; The three baskets are
three days;

19 Yet within three days
shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on
a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.

20 And it came to pass
the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast
unto all his servants; and he lifted up the head of the chief butler
and of the chief baker among his servants.

21 And he restored the
chief butler unto his butlership again; and he gave the cup into
Pharaoh's hand;

22 But he hanged the
chief baker; as Joseph had interpreted to them.

23 Yet did not the chief
butler remember Joseph, but forgat him.

GENESIS 41

1 And it came to pass at
the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed; and, behold, he
stood by the river.

2 And, behold, there came
up out of the river seven well-favored kine and fat-fleshed; and they
fed in a meadow.

3 And, behold, seven
other kine came up after them out of the river, ill-favored and
lean-fleshed; and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the
river.

4 And the ill-favored and
lean-fleshed kine did eat up the seven well-favored and fat kine. So
Pharaoh awoke.

5 And he slept and
dreamed the second time; and, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon
one stalk, rank and good.

6 And, behold, seven thin
ears and blasted with the east wind sprung up after them.

7 And the seven thin ears
devoured the seven rank and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and,
behold, it was a dream.

8 And it came to pass in
the morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for
all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof; and Pharaoh
told them his dream; but there was none that could interpret them
unto Pharaoh.

9 Then spake the chief
butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults this day;

10 Pharaoh was wroth with
his servants, and put me in ward in the captain of the guard's house,
both me and the chief baker;

11 And we dreamed a dream
in one night, I and he; we dreamed each man according to the
interpretation of his dream.

12 And there was there
with us a young man, a Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard;
and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams; to each man
according to his dream he did interpret.

13 And it came to pass,
as he interpreted to us, so it was; me he restored unto mine office,
and him he hanged.

14 Then Pharaoh sent and
called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon; and
he shaved himself, and changed his raiment, and came in unto Pharaoh.

15 And Pharaoh said unto
Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret
it; and I have heard say of thee that thou canst understand a dream
to interpret it.

16 And Joseph answered
Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me; God shall give Pharaoh an answer of
peace.

17 And Pharaoh said unto
Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood upon the bank of the river;

18 And, behold, there
came up out of the river seven kine, fat- fleshed and well-favored;
and they fed in a meadow;

19 And, behold, seven
other kine came up after them, poor and very ill-favored and
lean-fleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for
badness;

20 And the lean in the
ill-favored kine did eat up the first seven fat kine;

21 And when they had
eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but
they were still ill-favored, as at the beginning. So I awoke.

22 And I saw in my dream,
and, behold, seven ears came up in one stalk, full and good;

23 And, behold, seven
ears, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after
them;

24 And the thin ears
devoured the seven good ears; and I told this unto the magicians; but
there was none that could declare it to me.

25 And Joseph said unto
Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one; God hath showed Pharaoh what he
is about to do.

26 The seven good kine
are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years; the dream
is one.

27 And the seven thin and
ill-favored kine that came up after them are seven years; and the
seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of
famine.

28 This is the thing
which I have spoken unto Pharaoh; What God is about to do he showeth
unto Pharaoh.

29 Behold, there come
seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt;

30 And there shall arise
after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be
forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the
land;

31 And the plenty shall
not be known in the land by reason of that famine following; for it
shall be very grievous.

32 And for that the dream
was doubled unto Pharaoh twice; it is because the thing is
established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.

33 Now therefore let
Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise, and set him over the land
of Egypt.

34 Let Pharaoh do this,
and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth
part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years.

35 And let them gather
all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the
hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities.

36 And that food shall be
for store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall
be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine.

37 And the thing was good
in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.

38 And Pharaoh said unto
his servants, Can we find such a one as this is, a man in whom the
Spirit of God is?

39 And Pharaoh said unto
Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath showed thee all this, there in none so
discreet and wise as thou art;

40 Thou shalt be over my
house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled; only
in the throne will I be greater than thou.

41 And Pharaoh said unto
Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt.

42 And Pharaoh took off
his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed
him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;

43 And he made him to
ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before him,
Bow the knee; and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.

44 And Pharaoh said unto
Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man lift up his hand
or foot in all the land of Egypt.

45 And Pharaoh called
Joseph's name Zaphnath-paaneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath the
daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On. And Joseph went out over all
the land of Egypt.

46 And Joseph was thirty
years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went
out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of
Egypt.

47 And in the seven
plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls.

48 And he gathered up all
the food of the seven years, which were in the land of Egypt, and
laid up the food in the cities; the food of the field, which was
round about every city, laid he up in the same.

49 And Joseph gathered
corn as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left numbering; for
it was without number.

50 And unto Joseph were
born two sons, before the years of famine came; which Asenath the
daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On bare unto him.

51 And Joseph called the
name of the firstborn Manasseh; For God, said he, hath made me forget
all my toil, and all my father's house.

52 And the name of the
second called he Ephraim; For God hath caused me to be fruitful in
the land of my affliction.

53 And the seven years of
plenteousness, that was in the land of Egypt, were ended.

54 And the seven years of
dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said; and the dearth
was in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.

55 And when all the land
of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread; and
Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph; what he saith to
you, do.

56 And the famine was
over all the face of the earth; and Joseph opened all the
storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore
in the land of Egypt.

57 And all the countries
came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn; because that the famine
was so sore in all lands.

GENESIS 42

1 Now when Jacob saw that
there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one
upon another?

2 And he said, behold, I
have heard that there is corn in Egypt; get you down thither, and buy
for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.

3 And Joseph's ten
brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.

4 But Benjamin, Joseph's
brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest
peradventure mischief befall him.

5 And the sons of Israel
came to buy corn among those that came; for the famine was in the
land of Canaan.

6 And Joseph was the
governor over the land, and he it was that sold to all the people of
the land; and Joseph's brethren came, and bowed down themselves
before him with their faces to the earth.

7 And Joseph saw his
brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and
spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And
they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.

8 And Joseph knew his
brethren, but they knew not him.

9 And Joseph remembered
the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them, Ye are
spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.

10 And they said unto
him, Nay my lord, but to buy food are thy servants come.

11 We are all one man's
sons; we are true men; thy servants are no spies.

12 And he said unto them,
Nay, but to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.

13 And they said, Thy
servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of
Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and
one is not.

14 And Joseph said unto
them, That is it that I spake unto you, saying, Ye are spies;

16 Send one of you, and
let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your
words may be proved, whether there be any truth in you; or else by
the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies.

17 And he put them all
together into ward three days.

18 And Joseph said unto
them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God;

19 If ye be true men, let
one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison; go ye,
carry corn for the famine of your houses;

20 But bring your
youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye
shall not die. And they did so.

21 And they said, one to
another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw
the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear;
therefore is this distress come upon us.

22 And Reuben answered
them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the
child; and ye would not hear? therefore, behold, also his blood is
required.

23 And they knew not that
Joseph understood them; for he spake unto them by an interpreter.

24 And he turned himself
about from them, and wept; and returned to them again, and communed
with them, and took from them Simeon, and bound him before their
eyes.

25 Then Joseph commanded
to fill their sacks with corn, and to restore every man's money into
his sack, and to give them provision for the way; and thus did he
unto them.

26 And they laded their
asses with the corn, and departed thence.

27 And as one of them
opened his sack to give his ass provender in the inn, he espied his
money; for, behold, it was in his sack's mouth.

28 And he said unto his
brethren, My money is restored; and, lo, it is even in my sack; and
their heart failed them, and they were afraid, saying one to another,
What is this that God hath done unto us?

29 And they came unto
Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan; and told him all that
befell unto them; saying,

30 The man, who is the
lord of the land, spake roughly to us, and took us for spies of the
country.

31 And we said unto him,
We are true men; we are no spies;

32 We be twelve brethren,
sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our
father in the land of Canaan.

33 And the man, the lord
of the country, said unto us, Hereby shall I know that ye are true
men; leave one of your brethren here with me, and take food for the
famine of your households, and be gone;

34 And bring your
youngest brother unto me; then shall I know that ye are no spies, but
that ye are true men; so will I deliver you your brother, and ye
shall traffic in the land.

35 And it came to pass as
they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man's bundle of money
was in his sack; and when both they and their father saw the bundles
of money, they were afraid.

36 And Jacob their father
said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children; Joseph is not,
and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away; all these things
are against me.

37 And Reuben spake unto
his father, saying, Slay my two sons, if I bring him not to thee;
deliver him into my hand, and I will bring him to thee again.

38 And he said, My son
shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left
alone; if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then
shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

GENESIS 43

1 And the famine was sore
in the land.

2 And it came to pass,
when they had eaten up the corn which they had brought out of Egypt,
their father said unto them, Go again, buy us a little food.

4 If thou wilt send our
brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food;

5 But if thou wilt not
send him, we will not go down; for the man said unto us, Ye shall not
see my face, except your brother be with you.

6 And Israel said,
Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had
yet a brother?

7 And they said, The man
asked us straitly of our state, and of our kindred, saying, Is your
father yet alive? have ye another brother? and we told him according
to the tenor of these words; Could we certainly know that he would
say, Bring your brother down?

8 And Judah said unto
Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go;
that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, and also our little
ones.

9 I will be surety for
him; of my hand shalt thou require him; if I bring him not unto thee,
and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame forever.

10 For except we have
lingered, surely now we had returned this second time.

11 And their father
Israel said unto them, If it must be so now, do this; take of the
best fruits in the land in your vessels, and carry down the man a
present, a little balm, and a little honey, spices and myrrh, nuts
and almonds;

12 And take double money
in your hand; and the money that was brought again in the mouth of
your sacks, carry it again in your hand; peradventure it was an
oversight.

13 Take also your
brother, and arise, go again unto the man;

14 And God Almighty give
you mercy before the man, that he may send away your other brother,
and Benjamin. If I be bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.

15 And the men took that
present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and
rose up, and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.

16 And when Joseph saw
Benjamin with them, he said to the ruler of his house, Bring these
men home, and slay, and make ready; for these men shall dine with me
at noon.

17 And the man did as
Joseph bade; and the man brought the men into Joseph's house.

18 And the men were
afraid, because they were brought into Joseph's house; and they said,
Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time
are we brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, and fall
upon us, and take us for bondmen, and our asses.

19 And they came near to
the steward of Joseph's house, and they communed with him, at the
door of the house,

20 And said, O sir, we
came indeed down at the first time to buy food;

21 And it came to pass,
when we came to the inn, that we opened our sacks, and, behold, every
man's money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight;
and we have brought it again in our hand.

22 And other money have
we brought down in our hands to buy food; we cannot tell who put our
money in our sacks.

23 And he said, Peace be
to you, fear not; your God, and the God of your father, hath given
you treasure in your sacks; I had your money. And he brought Simeon
out unto them.

24 And the man brought
the men into Joseph's house, and gave them water, and they washed
their feet; and he gave their asses provender.

25 And they made ready
the present against Joseph came at noon; for they heard that they
should eat bread there.

26 And when Joseph came
home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the
house, and bowed themselves to him to the earth.

27 And he asked them of
their welfare, and said, Is your father well, the old man of whom ye
spake? Is he yet alive?

28 And they answered, Thy
servant our father is in good health, he is yet alive. And they bowed
down their heads, and made obeisance.

29 And he lifted up his
eyes, and saw his brother Benjamin, his mother's son, and said, Is
this your younger brother, of whom ye spake unto me? And he said, God
be gracious unto thee, my son.

30 And Joseph made haste;
for his bowels did yearn upon his brother; and he sought where to
weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there.

31 And he washed his
face, and went out, and refrained himself, and said, Set on bread.

32 And they set on for
him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians,
which did eat with him, by themselves; because the Egyptians might
not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that is an abomination unto the
Egyptians.

33 And they sat before
him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest
according to his youth; and the men marveled one at another.

34 And he took and sent
messes unto them from before him; but Benjamin's mess was five times
so much as any of theirs. And they drank, and were merry with him.

GENESIS
44

1 And he commanded the
steward of his house, saying, Fill the men's sacks with food, as much
as they can carry, and put every man's money in his sack's mouth,

2 And put my cup, the
silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, and his corn money.
And he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.

3 As soon as the morning
was light, the men were sent away, they and their asses.

4 And when they were gone
out of the city, and not yet far off Joseph said unto his steward,
Up, follow after the men; and when thou dost overtake them, say unto
them, Wherefore have ye rewarded evil for good?

5 Is not this it in which
my lord drinketh, and whereby indeed he divineth? ye have done evil
in so doing.

6 And he overtook them,
and he spake unto them these same words.

7 And they said unto him,
Wherefore saith my lord these words? God forbid that thy servants
should do according to this thing;

8 Behold, the money,
which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought again unto thee of
the land of Canaan; how then should we steal out of thy lord's house
sliver or gold?

9 With whomsoever of thy
servants it be found, both let him die, and we also will be my lord's
bondmen.

10 And he said, Now also
let it be according unto your words; he with whom it is found shall
be my servant; and ye shall be blameless.

11 Then they speedily
took down every man his sack to the ground, and opened every man his
sack.

12 And he searched, and
began at the eldest, and left at the youngest; and the cup was found
in Benjamin's sack.

13 Then they rent their
clothes, and laded every man his ass, and returned to the city.

14 And Judah and his
brethren came to Joseph's house; for he was yet there; and they fell
before him on the ground.

15 And Joseph said unto
them, What deed is this that ye have done? knew ye not that such a
man as I can certainly divine?

16 And Judah said, What
shall we say unto my lord? what shall we speak? or how shall we clear
ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants; behold,
we are my lord's servants, both we, and he also with whom the cup is
found.

17 And he said, God
forbid that I should do so; but the man in whose hand the cup is
found, he shall be my servant; and as for you, get you up in peace
unto your father.

18 Then Judah came near
unto him, and said, O my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a
word in my lord's ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy
servant; for thou art even as Pharaoh.

19 My lord asked his
servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother?

20 And we said unto my
lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a
little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his
mother, and his father loveth him.

21 And thou saidst unto
thy servants, Bring him down unto me, that I may set mine eyes upon
him.

22 And we said unto my
lord, The lad cannot leave his father; for if he should leave his
father, his father would die.

28 And the one went out
from me, and I said, Surely he is torn in pieces; and I saw him not
since:

29 And if ye take this
also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray
hairs with sorrow to the grave.

30 Now therefore when I
come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us; seeing
that his life is bound up in the lad's life;

31 It shall come to pass,
when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die; and thy
servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father
with sorrow to the grave.

32 For thy servant became
surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto
thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father forever.

33 Now therefore, I pray
thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord;
and let the lad go up with his brethren.

34 For how shall I go up
to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the
evil that shall come on my father.

GENESIS
45

1 Then Joseph could not
refrain himself before them all that stood by him; and he cried,
Cause every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with him,
while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren.

2 And he wept aloud; and
the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard.

3 And Joseph said unto
his brethren, I am Joseph; doth my father yet live? And his brethren
could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence.

4 And Joseph said unto
his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he
said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.

5 Now therefore be not
grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither; for God
did send me before you to preserve life.

6 For these two years
hath the famine been in the land; and yet there are five years, in
the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest.

7 And God sent me before
you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives
by a great deliverance.

8 So now it was not you
that sent me hither, but God; and he hath made me a father to
Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the
land of Egypt.

10 And thou shalt dwell
in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy
children, and thy children's children, and thy flocks, and thy herds,
and all that thou hast;

11 And there will I
nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and
thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty.

12 And, behold, your eyes
see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that
speaketh unto you.

13 And ye shall tell my
father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen; and ye
shall haste and bring down my father hither.

14 And he fell upon his
brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck.

15 Moreover he kissed all
his brethren, and wept upon them; and after that his brethren talked
with him.

16 And the fame thereof
was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's brethren are come; and
it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.

17 And Pharaoh said unto
Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and go,
get you unto the land of Canaan;

18 And take your father
and your households, and come unto me; and I will give you the good
of the land of Egypt, and ye shall eat the fat of the land.

19 Now thou art
commanded, this do ye; take you wagons out of the land of Egypt for
your little ones, and for your wives, and bring your father, and
come.

20 Also regard not your
stuff; for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours.

21 And the children of
Israel did so; and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the
commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way.

22 To all of them he gave
each man changes of raiment; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred
pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment.

23 And to his father he
sent after this manner; ten asses laden with the good things of
Egypt, and ten she asses laden with corn and bread and meat for his
father by the way.

24 So he sent his
brethren away, and they departed; and he said unto them, See that ye
fall not out by the way.

25 And they went up out
of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob their father,

26 And told him saying,
Joseph is yet alive, and he is governor over all the land of Egypt.
And Jacob's heart fainted, for he believed them not.

27 And they told him all
the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them; and when he saw the
wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their
father revived.

28 And Israel said, It is
enough; Joseph my son is yet alive; I will go and see him before I
die.

GENESIS 46

1 And Israel took his
journey with all that he had, and came to Beer-sheba, and offered
sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac.

2 And God spake unto
Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he
said, Here am I.

3 And he said, I am God,
the God of thy father; fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will
there make of thee a great nation.

4 I will go down with
thee into Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again; and
Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes.

5 And Jacob rose up from
Beer-sheba; and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and
their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had
sent to carry him.

6 And they took their
cattle, and their goods, which they had gotten in the land of Canaan,
and came into Egypt, Jacob, and all his seed with him;

7 His sons, and his sons'
sons with him, his daughters, and his sons' daughters, and all his
seed brought he with him into Egypt.

8 And these are the names
of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons;
Reuben, Jacob's firstborn.

9 And the sons of Reuben;
Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.

10 And the sons of
Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul
the son of a Canaanitish woman.

11 And the sons of Levi;
Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

12 And the sons of Judah;
Er, and Onan, and Shelah, and Pharez, and Zarah; but Er and Onan died
in the land of Canaan. And the son of Pharez were Hezron and Hamul.

13 And the sons of
Issachar; Tola, and Phuvah, and Job, and Shimron.

14 And the sons of
Zebulun; Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.

15 These be the sons of
Leah, which she bare unto Jacob in Padanaram, with his daughter
Dinah; all the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and
three.

16 And the sons of Gad;
Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.

17 And the sons of Asher;
Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister; and
the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel.

18 These are the sons of
Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter; and these she bare unto
Jacob, even sixteen souls.

19 The sons of Rachel
Jacob's wife; Joseph and Benjamin.

20 And unto Joseph in the
land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath the
daughter of Poti-pherah priest of On bare unto him.

21 And the sons of
Benjamin were Belah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Gera, and Naaman, Ehi,
and Rosh, Muppim, and Huppim, and Ard.

22 These are the sons of
Rachel, which were born to Jacob; all the souls were fourteen.

23 And the sons of Dan;
Hushim.

24 And the sons of
Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem.

25 These are the sons of
Bilhah, which Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter, and she bare these
unto Jacob; all the souls were seven.

26 All the souls that
came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins, besides
Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were threescore and six;

27 And the sons of
Joseph, which were borne him in Egypt, were two souls; all the souls
of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and
ten.

28 And he sent Judah
before him unto Joseph, to direct his face unto Goshen; and they came
into the land of Goshen.

29 And Joseph made ready
his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and
presented himself unto him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his
neck a good while.

30 And Israel said unto
Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou art
yet alive.

31 And Joseph said unto
his brethren, and unto his father's house, I will go up, and show
Pharaoh, and say unto him, My brethren, and my father's house, which
were in the land of Canaan, are come unto me;

32 And the men are
shepherds, for their trade hath been to feed cattle; and they have
brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.

33 And it shall come to
pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, What is your
occupation?

34 That ye shall say, Thy
servants' trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now,
both we, and also our fathers; that ye may dwell in the land of
Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians.

GENESIS 47

1 Then Joseph came and
told Pharaoh, and said, My father and my brethren, and their flocks,
and their herds, and all that they have, are come out of the land of
Canaan; and, behold, they are in the land of Goshen.

2 And he took some of his
brethren, even five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh.

3 And Pharaoh said unto
his brethren, What is your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh,
Thy servants are shepherds, both we, and also our fathers.

4 They said moreover unto
Pharaoh, For to sojourn in the land are we come; for thy servants
have no pasture for their flocks; for the famine is sore in the land
of Canaan; now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the
land of Goshen.

6 The land of Egypt is
before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to
dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell; and if thou knowest any
men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.

7 And Joseph brought in
Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh; and Jacob blessed
Pharaoh.

8 And Pharaoh said unto
Jacob, How old art thou?

9 And Jacob said unto
Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and
thirty years; few and evil have the days of the years of my life
been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of
my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

10 And Jacob blessed
Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.

11 And Joseph placed his
father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of
Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh
had commanded.

12 And Joseph nourished
his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with
bread, according to their families.

13 And there was no bread
in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of
Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.

14 And Joseph gathered up
all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of
Canaan, for the corn which they bought; and Joseph brought the money
into Pharaoh's house.

15 And when money failed
in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians
came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread; for why should we die in
thy presence? for the money faileth.

16 And Joseph said, Give
your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail.

17 And they brought their
cattle unto Joseph; and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for
horses, and for the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, and for
the asses; and he fed them with bread for all their cattle for that
year.

18 When that year was
ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will
not hide it from my lord, how that our money is spent; my lord also
hath our herds of cattle; there is not aught left in the sight of my
lord, but our bodies and our lands;

19 Wherefore shall we die
before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for
bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh; and give us
seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate.

20 And Joseph bought all
the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his
field, because the famine prevailed over them; so the land became
Pharaoh's.

21 And as for the people,
he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even
to the other end thereof.

22 Only the land of the
priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion assigned them of
Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them; wherefore
they sold not their lands.

23 Then Joseph said unto
the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for
Pharaoh; lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.

24 And it shall come to
pass in the increase, that ye shall give the fifth part unto Pharaoh,
and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your
food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little
ones.

25 And they said, Thou
hast saved our lives; let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and
we will be Pharaoh's servants.

26 And Joseph made it a
law over the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have
the fifth part; except the land of the priests only, which became not
Pharaoh's.

27 And Israel dwelt in
the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions
therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.

28 And Jacob lived in the
land of Egypt seventeen years; so the whole age of Jacob was a
hundred forty and seven years.

29 And the time drew nigh
that Israel must die; and he called his son Joseph, and said unto
him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy
hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not,
I pray thee, in Egypt;

30 But I will lie with my
fathers, and thou shalt carry me out of Egypt, and bury me in their
burying-place. And he said, I will do as thou hast said.

31
And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel bowed
himself upon the bed's head.

GENESIS 48

1 And it came to pass
after these things, that it was told Joseph, saying, Behold, thy
father is sick; and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and
Ephraim.

2 And it was told Jacob,
saying, Look, and behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee; and Israel
strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed.

3 And Jacob said unto
Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan,
and blessed me,

4 And said unto me,
Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, saith the Lord,
and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this
land to thy seed after thee, for an everlasting possession.

5 And now, of thy two
sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land of
Egypt, before I came unto thee into Egypt; behold, they are mine, and
the God of my fathers shall bless them; even as Reuben and Simeon
they shall be blessed, for they are mine; wherefore they shall be
called after my name. (Therefore they were called Israel.)

6 And thy issue which
thou begettest after them, shall be thine, and shall be called after
the name of their brethren in their inheritance, in the tribes;
therefore they were called the tribes of Manasseh and of Ephraim.

7 And Jacob said unto
Joseph, When the God of my fathers appeared unto me in Luz, in the
land of Canaan; he sware unto me, that he would give unto me, and
unto my seed, the land for an everlasting possession.

8 Therefore, O my son, he
hath blessed me in raising thee up to be a servant unto me, in saving
my house from death;

9 In delivering my
people, thy brethren, from famine which was sore in the land;
wherefore the God of thy fathers shall bless thee, and the fruit of
thy loins, that they shall be blessed above thy brethren, and above
thy father's house;

10 For thou hast
prevailed, and thy father's house hath bowed down unto thee, even as
it was shown unto thee, before thou wast sold into Egypt by the hands
of thy brethren; wherefore thy brethren shall bow down unto thee,
from generation to generation, unto the fruit of thy loins forever;

11 For thou shalt be a
light unto my people, to deliver them in the days of their captivity,
from bondage; and to bring salvation unto them, when they are
altogether bowed down under sin.

12 And therefore, as for
me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan,
in the way when we were yet but a little way to come unto Ephrath;
and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same is called
Bethlehem.

13 And Israel beheld
Joseph's sons, and said, Who are these?

14 And Joseph said unto
his father, They are my sons, whom God hath given me in this land.

15 And he said, Bring
them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them.

16 Now the eyes of Israel
were dim for age, so that he could not see well. And he brought them
near unto him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.

17 And Israel said unto
Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face; and lo, God hath showed me
also thy seed.

18 And Joseph brought
them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face
to the earth.

19 And Joseph took them
both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and
Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought
them near unto him.

20 And Israel stretched
out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim's head, who was the
younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands
wittingly; for Manasseh was the firstborn.

21 And he blessed Joseph,
and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the
God which fed me all my life long unto this day,

22 The Angel which
redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named
on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them
grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.

23 And when Joseph saw
that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it
displeased him; and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from
Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head.

24 And Joseph said unto
his father, Not so, my father; for this is the firstborn; put thy
right hand upon his head.

25 And his father
refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it; he also shall become
a people, and he also shall be great; but truly his younger brother
shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of
nations.

26 And he blessed them,
that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee
as Ephraim and as Manasseh; and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.

27 And Israel said unto
Joseph, Behold, I die; but God shall be with you, and bring you again
unto the land of your fathers.

28 Moreover I have given
to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand
of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.

GENESIS
49

1 And Jacob called unto
his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you
what shall befall you in the last days.

9 Judah is a lion's
whelp; from the prey, my son, thou art gone up; he stooped down, he
couched as a lion, and as an old lion, who shall rouse him up?

10 The sceptre shall not
depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh
come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.

11 Binding his foal unto
the vine, and has ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his
garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes;

12 His eyes shall be red
with wine, and his teeth white with milk.

13 Zebulun shall dwell at
the haven of the sea; and shall be for a haven of ships; and his
border shall be unto Zidon.

14 Issachar is a strong
ass couching down between two burdens;

15 And he saw that rest
was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder
to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.

16 Dan shall judge his
people, as one of the tribes of Israel.

17 Dan shall be a serpent
by the way, an adder in the path that biteth the horse heels, so that
his rider shall fall backward.

18 I have waited for thy
salvation, O Lord.

19 Gad, a troop shall
overcome him; but he shall overcome at the last.

20 Out of Asher his bread
shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.

21 Naphtali is a hind let
loose; he giveth goodly words.

22 Joseph is a fruitful
bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the
wall;

23 The archers have
sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him,

24 But his bow abode in
strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of
the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of
Israel;)

25 Even by the God of thy
father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless
thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth
under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb;

26 The blessings of thy
father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the
utmost bound of the everlasting hills; they shall be on the head of
Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from
his brethren.

27 Benjamin shall raven
as a wolf; in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he
shall divide the spoil.

28 All these are the
twelve tribes of Israel; and this is it that their father spake unto
them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he
blessed them.

29 And he charged them,
and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people; bury me with
my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,

30 In the cave that is in
the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan,
which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a
possession of a burying-place.

31 There they buried
Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his
wife; and there I buried Leah.

32 The purchase of the
field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth.

33 And when Jacob had
made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the
bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.

GENESIS
50

1 And Joseph fell upon
his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.

2 And Joseph commanded
his servants the physicians to embalm his father; and the physicians
embalmed Israel.

3 And forty days were
fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are
embalmed; and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.

4 And when the days of
his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh,
saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in
the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

5 My father made me
swear, saying, Lo, I die; in my grave which I have digged for me in
the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go
up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.

6 And Pharaoh said, Go
up, and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear.

7 And Joseph went up to
bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh,
the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt,

8 And all the house of
Joseph, and his brethren, and his father's house; only their little
ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of
Goshen.

9 And there went up with
him both chariots and horsemen; and it was a very great company.

10 And they came to the
threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan; and there thy
mourned with a great and very sore lamentation; and he made a
mourning for his father seven days.

11 And when the
inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the
floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the
Egyptians; wherefore the name of it was called Abel-mizraim, which is
beyond Jordan.

12 And his sons did unto
him according as he commanded them;

13 For his sons carried
him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field
of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of
a burying-place of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.

14 And Joseph returned
into Egypt, he, and his brethren, and all that went up with him to
bury his father, after he had buried his father.

15 And when Joseph's
brethren saw that their father was dead, they said, Joseph will
peradventure hate us, and will certainly requite us all the evil
which we did unto him.

16 And they sent a
messenger unto Joseph, saying, Thy father did command before he died,
saying,

17 So shall ye say unto
Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and
their sin; for they did unto thee evil; and now we pray thee, forgive
the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph
wept when they spake unto him.

18 And his brethren also
went and fell down before his face; and they said, Behold, we be thy
servants.

19 And Joseph said unto
them, Fear not; for am I in the place of God?

20 But as for you, ye
thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to
pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.

21 Now therefore fear ye
not; I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them,
and spake kindly unto them.

22 And Joseph dwelt in
Egypt, he, and his father's house; and Joseph lived a hundred and ten
years.

23 And Joseph saw
Ephraim's children of the third generation; the children also of
Machir the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph's knees.

24 And Joseph said unto
his brethren, I die, and go unto my fathers; and I go down to my
grave with joy. The God of my father Jacob be with you, to deliver
you out of affliction in the days of your bondage; for the Lord hath
visited me, and I have obtained a promise of the Lord, that out of
the fruit of my loins, the Lord God will raise up a righteous branch
out of my loins; and unto thee, whom my father Jacob hath named
Israel, a prophet; (not the Messiah who is called Shilo;) and this
prophet shall deliver my people out of Egypt in the days of thy
bondage.

25 And it shall come to
pass that they shall be scattered again; and a branch shall be broken
off, and shall be carried into a far country; nevertheless they shall
be remembered in the covenants of the Lord, when the Messiah cometh;
for he shall be made manifest unto them in the latter days, in the
Spirit of power; and shall bring them out of darkness into light; out
of hidden darkness, and out of captivity unto freedom.

26 A seer shall the Lord
my God raise up, who shall be a choice seer unto the fruit of my
loins.

27 Thus saith the Lord
God of my fathers unto me, A choice seer will I raise up out of the
fruit of thy loins, and he shall be esteemed highly among the fruit
of thy loins; and unto him will I give commandment that he shall do a
work for the fruit of thy loins, his brethren.

28 And he shall bring
them to the knowledge of the covenants which I have made with thy
fathers; and he shall do whatsoever work I shall command him.

29 And I will make him
great in mine eyes, for he shall do my work; and he shall be great
like unto him whom I have said I would raise up unto you, to deliver
my people, O house of Israel, out of the land of Egypt; for a seer
will I raise up to deliver my people out of the land of Egypt; and he
shall be called Moses. And by this name he shall know that he is of
thy house; for he shall be nursed by the king's daughter, and shall
be called her son.

30 And again, a seer will
I raise up out of the fruit of thy loins, and unto him will I give
power to bring forth my word unto the seed of thy loins; and not to
the bringing forth of my word only, saith the Lord, but to the
convincing them of my word, which shall have already gone forth among
them in the last days;

31 Wherefore the fruit of
thy loins shall write, and the fruit of the loins of Judah shall
write; and that which shall be written by the fruit of thy loins, and
also that which shall be written by the fruit of the loins of Judah,
shall grow together unto the confounding of false doctrines, and
laying down of contentions, and establishing peace among the fruit of
thy loins, and bringing them to a knowledge of their fathers in the
latter days; and also to the knowledge of my covenants, saith the
Lord.

32 And out of weakness
shall he be made strong, in that day when my work shall go forth
among all my people, which shall restore them, who are of the house
of Israel, in the last days.

33 And that seer will I
bless, and they that seek to destroy him shall be confounded; for
this promise I give unto you; for I will remember you from generation
to generation; and his name shall be called Joseph, and it shall be
after the name of his father; and he shall be like unto you; for the
thing which the Lord shall bring forth by his hand shall bring my
people unto salvation.

34 And the Lord sware
unto Joseph that he would preserve his seed forever, saying, I will
raise up Moses, and a rod shall be in his hand, and he shall gather
together my people, and he shall lead them as a flock, and he shall
smite the waters of the Red Sea with his rod.

35 And he shall have
judgment, and shall write the word of the Lord. And he shall not
speak many words, for I will write unto him my law by the finger of
mine own hand. And I will make a spokesman for him, and his name
shall be called Aaron.

36 And it shall be done
unto thee in the last days also, even as I have sworn. Therefore,
Joseph said unto his brethren, God will surely visit you, and bring
you out of this land, unto the land which he sware unto Abraham, and
unto Isaac, and to Jacob.

37 And Joseph confirmed
many other things unto his brethren, and took an oath of the children
of Israel, saying unto them, God will surely visit you, and ye shall
carry up my bones from hence.

38 So Joseph died when he
was an hundred and ten years old; and they embalmed him, and they put
him in a coffin in Egypt; and he was kept from burial by the children
of Israel, that he might be carried up and laid in the sepulcher with
his father. And thus they remembered the oath which they sware unto
him.

1 Now these are the names
of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man according
to his household who came with Jacob.

2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi,
and Judah,

3 Issachar, Zebulun, and
Benjamin,

4 Dan, and Naphtali, Gad,
and Asher.

5 And all the souls that
came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls; for Joseph was in
Egypt already.

6 And Joseph died, and
all his brethren, and all that generation.

7 And the children of
Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and
waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.

8 Now there arose up a
new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.

9 And he said unto his
people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and
mightier than we;

10 Come on, let us deal
wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when
there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight
against us, and so get them up out of the land.

11 Therefore they did set
over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they
built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.

12 But the more they
afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew. And they were
grieved because of the children of Israel.

13 And the Egyptians made
the children of Israel to serve with rigor;

14 And they made their
lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all
manner of service in the field; all their service, wherein they made
them serve, was with rigor.

15 And the king of Egypt
spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was
Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah;

16 And he said, When ye
do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the
stools, if it be a son, then ye shall kill him; but if it be a
daughter, then she shall live.

17 But the midwives
feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but
saved the men children alive.

18 And the king of Egypt
called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this
thing, and have saved the men children alive?

19 And the midwives said
unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women;
for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto
them.

20 Therefore God dealt
well with the midwives; and the people multiplied, and waxed very
mighty.

21 And it came to pass,
because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.

22 And Pharaoh charged
all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the
river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.

EXODUS 2

1 And there went a man of
the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.

2 And the woman
conceived, and bare a son; and when she saw him that he was a goodly
child, she hid him three months.

3 And when she could not
longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it
with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it
in the flags by the river's brink.

4 And his sister stood
afar off, to wit what would be done to him.

5 And the daughter of
Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens
walked along by the river's side; and when she saw the ark among the
flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.

6 And when she had opened
it, she saw the child; and, behold, the babe wept. And she had
compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children.

7 Then said his sister to
Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew
women, that she may nurse the child for thee?

8 And Pharaoh's daughter
said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child's mother.

9 And Pharaoh's daughter
said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will
give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it.

10 And the child grew,
and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son.
And she called his name Moses; and she said, Because I drew him out
of the water.

11 And it came to pass in
those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren,
and looked on their burdens; and he spied an Egyptian smiting a
Hebrew, one of his brethren.

12 And he looked this way
and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the
Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.

13 And when he went out
the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together; and
he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?

14 And he said, Who made
thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou
killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing
is known.

15 Now when Pharaoh heard
this thing he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of
Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian; and he sat down by a well.

16 Now the priest of
Midian had seven daughters; and they came and drew water, and filled
the troughs to water their father's flock.

17 And the shepherds came
and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered
their flock.

18 And when they came to
Reuel their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon
today?

19 And they said, An
Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew
water enough for us, and watered the flock.

20 And he said unto his
daughters, And where is he? why is it that ye have left the man? call
him, that he may eat bread.

21 And Moses was content
to dwell with the man; and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.

22 And she bare him a
son, and he called his name Gershom; for he said, I have been a
stranger in a strange land.

23 And it came to pass in
process of time, that the king of Egypt died; and the children of
Israel sighted by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their
cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.

24 And God heard their
groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac,
and with Jacob.

25 And God looked upon
the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them.

EXODUS 3

1 Now Moses kept the
flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian; and he led
the flock to the back side of the desert, and came to the mountain of
God even to Horeb.

2 And again, the presence
of the Lord appeared unto him, in a flame of fire in the midst of a
bush; and he looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the
bush was not consumed.

3 And Moses said, I will
now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not
consumed.

4 And when the Lord saw
that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of
the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.

5 And he said, Draw not
nigh hither; put off thy shoes from off thy feet; for the place
whereon thou standest is holy ground.

6 Moreover he said, I am
the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the
God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon
God.

7 And the Lord said, I
have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and
have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their
sorrows;

8 And I am come down to
deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up
out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing
with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the
Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and
the Jebusites.

9 Now therefore, behold,
the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me; and I have also
seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.

10 Come now therefore,
and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my
people the children of Israel out of Egypt.

11 And Moses said unto
God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring
forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?

12 And he said, Certainly
I will be with thee; and this shall be a token unto thee, that I have
sent thee; When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye
shall serve God upon this mountain.

13 And Moses said unto
God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say
unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they
shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them?

14 And God said unto
Moses, I AM THAT I AM; and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the
children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.

15 And God said moreover
unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The Lord
God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the
God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you; this is my name forever, and
this is my memorial unto all generations.

16 Go, and gather the
elders of Israel together, and say unto them, The Lord God of your
fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto
me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to
you in Egypt;

17 And I have said I will
bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the
Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites,
and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and
honey.

18 And they shall hearken
to thy voice; and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel,
unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, The Lord God of
the Hebrews hath met with us; and now let us go, we beseech thee,
three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the
Lord our God.

19 And I am sure that the
king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not by a mighty hand.

20 And I will stretch out
my hand, and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the
midst thereof; and after that he will let you go.

21 And I will give this
people favor in the sight of the Egyptians; and it shall come to
pass, that, when ye go, ye shall not go empty;

22 But every woman shall
borrow of her neighbor, and of her that sojourneth in her house;
jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment; and ye shall put
them upon your sons, and upon your daughters; and ye shall spoil the
Egyptians.

EXODUS 4

1 And Moses answered and
said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my
voice; for they will say, The Lord hath not appeared unto thee.

2 And the Lord said unto
him, What is that in thine hand? And he said, A rod.

3 And he said, Cast it on
the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent;
and Moses fled from before it.

4 And the Lord said unto
Moses, Put forth thine hand, and take it by the tail. And he put
forth his hand, and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand;

5 That they may believe
that the Lord God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of
Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee.

6 And the Lord said
furthermore unto him, Put now thine hand into thy bosom. And he put
his hand into his bosom; and when he took it out, behold, his hand
was leprous as snow.

7 And he said, Put thy
hand into thy bosom again. And he put his hand into his bosom again;
and plucked it out of his bosom, and, behold, it was turned again as
his other flesh.

8 And it shall come to
pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of
the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.

9 And it shall come to
pass, if they will not believe also these two signs, neither hearken
unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river, and
pour it upon the dry land; and the water which thou takest out of the
river shall become blood upon the dry land.

10 And Moses said unto
the Lord, O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since
thou hast spoken unto thy servant; but I am slow of speech, and of a
slow tongue.

11 And the Lord said unto
him, Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or
the seeing, or the blind? have not I the Lord?

12 Now therefore go, and
I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.

13 And he said, O my
Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send.

14 And the anger of the
Lord was kindled against Moses, and he said, Is not Aaron the Levite
thy brother? I know that he can speak well. And also, behold, he
cometh forth to meet thee; and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in
his heart.

15 And thou shalt speak
unto him, and put words in his mouth; and I will be with thy mouth,
and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do.

16 And he shall be thy
spokesman unto the people; and he shall be, even he shall be to thee
instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him instead of God.

17 And thou shalt take
this rod in thine hand, wherewith thou shalt do signs.

18 And Moses went and
returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said unto him, Let me go, I
pray thee, and return unto my brethren which are in Egypt, and see
whether they be yet alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace.

19 And the Lord said unto
Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt; for all the men are dead
which sought thy life.

20 And Moses took his
wife and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the
land of Egypt; and Moses took the rod of God in his hand.

21 And the Lord said unto
Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all
those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand, and I
will prosper thee; but Pharaoh will harden his heart, and he will not
let the people go.

23 And I say unto thee,
Let my son go, that he may serve me; and if thou refuse to let him
go, behold, I will slay thy son, even thy firstborn.

24 And it came to pass,
that the Lord appeared unto him as he was in the way, by the inn. The
Lord was angry with Moses, and his hand was about to fall upon him to
kill him; for he had not circumcised his son.

25 Then Zipporah took a
sharp stone and circumcised her son, and cast the stone at his feet,
and said, Surely thou art a bloody husband unto me.

26 And the Lord spared
Moses and let him go, because Zipporah, his wife, circumcised the
child. And she said, Thou art a bloody husband. And Moses was
ashamed, and hid his face from the Lord, and said, I have sinned
before the Lord.

27 And the Lord said unto
Aaron, Go into the wilderness to meet Moses, and he went and met him,
in the mount of God; in the mount where God appeared unto him; and
Aaron kissed him.

28 And Moses told Aaron
all the words of the Lord who had sent him, and all the signs which
he had commanded him.

29 And Moses and Aaron
went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel;

30 And Aaron spake all
the words which the Lord had spoken unto Moses, and did the signs in
the sight of the people.

31 And the people
believed; and when they heard that the Lord had visited the children
of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they
bowed their heads and worshiped.

EXODUS
5

1 And afterward Moses and
Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel,
Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the
wilderness.

2 And Pharaoh said, Who
is the Lord, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know
not the Lord, neither will I let Israel go.

3 And they said, The God
of the Hebrews hath met with us; let us go, we pray thee, three days'
journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the Lord our God; lest he
fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.

4 And the king of Egypt
said unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, lead the people
from their works? get you unto your burdens.

5 And Pharaoh said,
Behold, the people of the land now are many, and ye make them rest
from their burdens.

6 And Pharaoh commanded
the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers,
saying,

7 Ye shall no more give
the people straw to make brick, as heretofore; let them go and gather
straw for themselves.

8 And the tale of the
bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye
shall not diminish aught thereof; for they be idle; therefore they
cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.

9 Let there more work be
laid upon the men, that they may labor therein; and let them not
regard vain words.

10 And the taskmasters of
the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the
people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.

11 Go ye, get your straw
where ye can find it; yet not aught of your work shall be diminished.

12 So the people were
scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble
instead of straw.

13 And the taskmasters
hasted them, saying, Fulfill your works, your daily tasks, as when
there was straw.

14 And the officers of
the children of Israel, which Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over
them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your
task in making brick, both yesterday and today, as heretofore?

15 Then the officers of
the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore
dealest thou thus with thy servants?

16 There is no straw
given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick; and, behold,
thy servants are beaten; but the fault is in thine own people.

17 But he said, Ye are
idle, ye are idle; therefore ye say, Let us go and do sacrifice to
the Lord.

18 Go therefore now, and
work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the
tale of bricks.

19 And the officers of
the children of Israel did see that they were in evil case, after it
was said, Ye shall not diminish aught from your bricks of your daily
task.

20 And they met Moses and
Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came forth from Pharaoh;

21 And they said unto
them, The Lord look upon you, and judge; because ye have made our
savor to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his
servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us.

22 And Moses returned
unto the Lord, and said, Lord, wherefore hast thou so evil entreated
this people? why is it that thou hast sent me?

23 For since I came to
Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he hath done evil to this people;
neither hast thou delivered thy people at all.

EXODUS
6

1 Then the Lord said unto
Moses, Now shalt thou see what I will do to Pharaoh; for with a
strong hand shall he let them go, and with a strong hand shall he
drive them out of his land.

2 And God spake unto
Moses, and said unto him, I am the Lord;

3 And I appeared unto
Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob. I am the Lord God Almighty; the
Lord JEHOVAH. And was not my name known unto them?

4 Yea, and I have also
established my covenant with them, which I made with them, to give
them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they
were strangers.

5 And I have also heard
the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in
bondage; and I have remembered my covenant.

6 Wherefore say unto the
children of Israel, I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from
under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their
bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with
great judgments;

7 And I will take you to
me for a people, and I will be to you a God; and ye shall know that I
am the Lord your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens
of the Egyptians.

8 And I will bring you in
unto the land, concerning the which I did swear to give it to
Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for a
heritage; I the Lord will do it.

9 And Moses spake so unto
the children of Israel; but they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish
of spirit, and for cruel bondage.

10 And the Lord spake
unto Moses, saying,

11 Go in, speak unto
Pharaoh king of Egypt, that he let the children of Israel go out of
his land.

12 And Moses spake before
the Lord, saying, Behold, the children of Israel have not hearkened
unto me; how then shall Pharaoh hear me, who is of uncircumcised
lips?

13 And the Lord spake
unto Moses, and unto Aaron, and gave them a charge unto the children
of Israel, and unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of
Israel out of the land of Egypt.

14 These are the heads of
their fathers' houses: The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel;
Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi; these are the families of
Reuben.

15 And the sons of
Simeon; Jemuel, and Jamin, and Ohad, and Jachin, and Zohar, and Shaul
the son of a Canaanitsh woman; these are the families of Simeon.

16 And these are the
names of the sons of Levi according to their generations; Gershon,
and Kohath, and Merari; and the years of the life of Levi were a
hundred thirty and seven years.

17 The sons of Gershon;
Libni, and Shimi, according to their families.

18 And the sons of
Kohath; Amram, and Izxhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel; and the years of
the life of Kohath were a hundred thirty and three years.

19 And the sons of
Merari; Mahali and Mushi; these are the families of Levi according to
their generations.

20 And Amram took him
Jochebed his father's sister to wife; and she bare him Aaron and
Moses; and the years of the life of Amram were a hundred and thirty
and seven years.

21 And the sons of Izhar;
Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri.

22 And the sons of
Uzziel; Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Zithri.

23 And Aaron took him
Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab, sister of Naashon, to wife; and she
bare him Nabad and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

24 And the sons of Korah;
Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph; these are families of the Korhites.

25 And Eleazar Aaron's
son took him one of the daughters of Putiel to wife; and she bare him
Phinehas; these are the heads of the fathers of the Levites according
to their families.

26 These are the sons of
Aaron, according to their families. And all these are the names of
the children of Israel according to the heads of their families, that
the Lord said unto Aaron and Moses, they should bring up out of the
land of Egypt, according to their armies.

27 These are they
concerning whom the Lord spake to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, that he
should let them go. And he sent Moses and Aaron to bring out the
children of Israel from Egypt.

28 And it came to pass,
on the day the Lord spake unto Moses, in the land of Egypt, that the
Lord commanded Moses that he should speak unto Pharaoh, king of
Egypt, saying, I, the Lord, will do unto Pharaoh, king of Egypt, all
that I say unto thee.

29 And Moses said, before
the Lord, Behold, I am of stammering lips, and slow of speech; how
shall Pharaoh hearken unto me?

EXODUS
7

1 And the Lord said unto
Moses, See, I have made thee a prophet to Pharaoh; and Aaron thy
brother shall be thy spokesman.

2 Thou shalt speak unto
thy brother all that I command thee; and Aaron thy brother shall
speak unto Pharaoh, that he send the children of Israel out of his
land.

3 And Pharaoh will harden
his heart, as I said unto thee; and thou shalt multiply my signs, and
my wonders, in the land of Egypt.

4 But Pharaoh will not
hearken unto you, therefore I will lay my hand upon Egypt, and bring
forth mine armies, my people, the children of Israel, out of the land
of Egypt by great judgments.

5 And the Egyptians shall
know that I am the Lord, when I stretch forth mine hand upon Egypt,
and bring out the children of Israel from among them.

6 And Moses and Aaron did
as the Lord commanded them, so did they.

7 And Moses was fourscore
years old, and Aaron fourscore and three years old, when they spake
unto Pharaoh.

8 And the Lord spake unto
Moses and unto Aaron, saying,

9 When Pharaoh shall
speak unto you, saying, Show a miracle that I may know you; then thou
shalt say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and cast it before Pharaoh, and
it shall become a serpent.

10 And Moses and Aaron
went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so as the Lord had commanded: and
Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and
it became a serpent.

11 Then Pharaoh also
called the wise men and the sorcerers; now the magicians of Egypt,
they also did in like manner with their enchantments.

12 For they cast down
every man his rod, and they became serpents; but Aaron's rod
swallowed up their rods.

13 And Pharaoh hardened
his heart, that he hearkened not unto them; as the Lord had said.

14 And the Lord said unto
Moses, Pharaoh's heart is hardened, he refuseth to let the people go.

15 Get thee unto Pharaoh
in the morning; lo, he goeth out unto the water; and thou shalt stand
by the river's brink against he come; and the rod which was turned to
a serpent shalt thou take in thine hand.

16 And thou shalt say
unto him, The Lord God of the Hebrews hath sent me unto thee, saying,
Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness; and,
behold, hitherto thou wouldest not hear.

17 Thus saith the Lord,
In this thou shalt know that I am the Lord; behold, I will smite with
the rod that is in mine hand upon the waters which are in the river,
and they shall be turned to blood.

18 And the fish that is
in the river shall die, and the river shall stink; and the Egyptians
shall loathe to drink of the water of the river.

19 And the Lord spake
unto Moses, Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch out thine hand
upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams, upon their rivers, and
upon their ponds, and upon all their pools of water, that they may
become blood; and that there may be blood throughout all the land of
Egypt, both in vessels of wood, and in vessels of stone.

20 And Moses and Aaron
did so, as the Lord commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and smote
the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in
the sight of his servants; and all the waters that were in the river
were turned to blood.

21 And the fish that was
in the river died; and the river stank, and the Egyptians could not
drink of the water of the river; and there was blood throughout all
the land of Egypt.

22 And the magicians of
Egypt did so with their enchantments; and Pharaoh's heart was
hardened, neither did he hearken unto them; as the Lord had said.

23 And Pharaoh turned and
went into his house, neither did he set his heart to this also.

24 And all the Egyptians
digged round about the river for water to drink; for they could not
drink of the water of the river.

25 And seven days were
fulfilled, after that the Lord had smitten the river.

2 And if thou refuse to
let them go, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs;

3 And the river shall
bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into thine
house, and into thy bedchamber, and upon thy bed, and into the house
of thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thine ovens, and into
thy kneading troughs;

4 And the frogs shall
come up both on thee, and upon thy people, and upon all thy servants.

5 And the Lord spake unto
Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch forth thine hand with thy rod over the
streams, over the rivers, and over the ponds, and cause frogs to come
up upon the land of Egypt.

6 And Aaron stretched out
his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered
the land of Egypt.

7 And the magicians did
so with their enchantments, and brought up frogs upon the land of
Egypt.

8 Then Pharaoh called for
Moses and Aaron, and said, Entreat the Lord, that he may take away
the frogs from me, and from my people; and I will let the people go,
that they may do sacrifice unto the Lord.

9 And Moses said unto
Pharaoh, Glory over me; when shall I entreat for thee, and for thy
servants, and for thy people, to destroy the frogs from thee and thy
houses, that they may remain in the river only?

10 And he said, Tomorrow.
And he said, Be it according to thy word; that thou mayest know that
there is none like unto the Lord our God.

11 And the frogs shall
depart from thee, and from thy houses, and from thy servants, and
from thy people; they shall remain in the river only.

12 And Moses and Aaron
went out from Pharaoh; and Moses cried unto the Lord because of the
frogs which he had brought against Pharaoh.

13 And the Lord did
according to the word of Moses; and the frogs died out of the houses,
out of the villages, and out of the fields.

14 And they gathered them
together upon heaps; and the land stank.

15 But when Pharaoh saw
that there was respite, he hardened his heart, and hearkened not unto
them; as the Lord had said.

16 And the Lord said unto
Moses, Say unto Aaron, Stretch out thy rod, and smite the dust of the
land, that it may become lice throughout all the land of Egypt.

17 And they did so; for
Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote the dust of the
earth, and it became lice in man, and in beast; all the dust of the
land became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.

18 And the magicians did
so with their enchantments to bring forth lice, but they could not;
so there were lice upon man, and upon beast.

19 Then the magicians
said unto Pharaoh, This is the finger of God; and Pharaoh's heart was
hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as the Lord had said.

20 And the Lord said unto
Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; lo, he
cometh forth to the water; and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord, Let
my people go, that they may serve me.

21 Else, if thou wilt not
let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies upon thee, and
upon thy servants, and upon thy people, and into thy houses; and the
houses of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and also
the ground whereon they are.

22 And I will sever in
that day the land of Goshen, in which my people dwell, that no swarms
of flies shall be there; to the end thou mayest know that I am the
Lord in the midst of the earth.

23 And I will put a
division between my people and thy people; tomorrow shall this sign
be.

24 And the Lord did so;
and there came a grievous swarm of flies into the house of Pharaoh,
and into his servants' houses, and into all the land of Egypt; the
land was corrupted by reason of the swarm of flies.

25 And Pharaoh called for
Moses and for Aaron, and said, Go ye, sacrifice to your God in the
land.

26 And Moses said, It is
not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the
Egyptians to the Lord our God; lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination
of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us?

27 We will go three days'
journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to the Lord our God, as he
shall command us.

28 And Pharaoh said, I
will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the Lord your God in the
wilderness; only ye shall not go very far away; entreat for me.

29 And Moses said,
Behold, I go out from thee, and I will entreat the Lord that the
swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from
his people, tomorrow; but let not Pharaoh deal deceitfully any more
in not letting the people go to sacrifice to the Lord.

30 And Moses went out
from Pharaoh, and entreated the Lord.

31 And the Lord did
according to the word of Moses; and he removed the swarms of flies
from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people; there remained
not one.

32 And Pharaoh hardened
his heart at this time also, neither would he let the people go.

EXODUS 9

1 Then the Lord said unto
Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh, and tell him, Thus saith the Lord God of
the Hebrews, Let my people go, That they may serve me.

2 For if thou refuse to
let them go, and wilt hold them still,

3 Behold, the hand of the
Lord is upon thy cattle which is in the field, upon the horses, upon
the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep; there
shall be a very grievous murrain.

4 And the Lord shall
sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt and there
shall nothing die of all that is the children's of Israel.

5 And the Lord appointed
a set time, saying, Tomorrow the Lord shall do this thing in the
land.

6 And the Lord did that
thing on the morrow, and all the cattle of Egypt died; but of the
cattle of the children of Israel died not one.

7 And Pharaoh sent, and,
behold, there was not one of the cattle of the Israelites dead. And
the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people go.

8 And the Lord said unto
Moses and unto Aaron, Take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace,
and let Moses sprinkle it toward the heaven in the sight of Pharaoh.

9 And it shall become
small dust in all the land of Egypt, and shall be a boil breaking
forth with blains upon man, and upon beast, throughout all the land
of Egypt.

10 And they took ashes of
the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up
toward heaven; and it became a boil breaking forth with blains upon
man, and upon beast.

11 And the magicians
could not stand before Moses, because of the boils; for the boil was
upon the magicians, and upon all the Egyptians.

12 And Pharaoh hardened
his heart, and he hearkened not unto them; as the Lord had spoken
unto Moses.

13 And the Lord said unto
Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and
say unto him, Thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews, Let my people
go, that they may serve me.

14 For I will at this
time send all my plagues upon thine heart, and upon thy servants, and
upon thy people; that thou mayest know that there is none like me in
all the earth.

15 For now I will stretch
out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence;
and thou shalt be cut off from the earth.

16 And in very deed for
this cause have I raised thee up, for to show in thee my power; and
that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.

17 Therefore speak unto
Pharaoh the thing which I command thee, who as yet exalteth himself
that he will not let them go.

18 Behold, tomorrow about
this time, I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail, such as hath
not been in Egypt since the foundation thereof even until now.

19 Send therefore now,
and gather thy cattle, and all that thou hast in the field; for upon
every man and beast which shall be found in the field, and shall not
be brought home, the hail shall come down upon them, and they shall
die.

20 He that feared the
word of the Lord among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and
his cattle flee into the houses;

21 And he that regarded
not the word of the Lord left his servants and his cattle in the
field.

22 And the Lord said unto
Moses, Stretch forth thine hand toward heaven, that there may be hail
in all the land of Egypt, upon man, and upon beast, and upon every
herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt.

23 And Moses stretched
forth his rod toward heaven; and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and
the fire ran along upon the ground; and the Lord rained hail upon the
land of Egypt.

24 So there was hail, and
fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none
like it in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.

25 And the hail smote
throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man
and beast; and the hail smote every herb of the field, and brake
every tree of the field.

26 Only in the land of
Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was there no hail.

27 And Pharaoh sent and
called for Moses and Aaron, and said unto them, I have sinned this
time; the Lord is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.

28 Entreat the Lord (for
it is enough) that there be no more mighty thunderings and hail; and
I will let you go, and ye shall stay no longer.

29 And Moses said unto
him, As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will spread abroad my
hands unto the Lord; and the thunder shall cease, neither shall there
be any more hail; that thou mayest know how that the earth is the
Lord's.

30 But as for thee and
thy servants, I know that ye will not yet fear the Lord God.

31 And the flax and the
barley was smitten; for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was
bolled.

32 But the wheat and the
rye were not smitten; for they were not grown up.

33 And Moses went out of
the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands unto the Lord; and
the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured upon the
earth.

34 And when Pharaoh saw
that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased, he sinned
yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.

35 And the heart of
Pharaoh was hardened, neither would he let the children of Israel go;
as the Lord had spoken by Moses.

EXODUS
10

1 And the Lord said unto
Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh; for he hath hardened his heart, and the
hearts of his servants, therefore I will show these my signs before
him;

2 And that thou mayest
tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son's son, what things I have
wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that ye
may know how that I am the Lord.

3 And Moses and Aaron
came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith the Lord God of
the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me?
let my people go, that they may serve me.

4 Else, if thou refuse to
let my people go, behold, tomorrow will I bring the locusts into thy
coast;

5 And they shall cover
the face of the earth, that one cannot be able to see the earth; and
they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which remaineth
unto you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which groweth for
you out of the field;

6 And they shall fill thy
houses, and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses of all the
Egyptians; which neither thy fathers, nor thy fathers' fathers have
seen, since the day that they were upon the earth unto this day. And
he turned himself and went out from Pharaoh.

7 And Pharaoh's servants
said unto him, How long shall this man be a snare unto us? let the
men go, that they may serve the Lord their God; knowest thou not yet
that Egypt is destroyed?

8 And Moses and Aaron
were brought again unto Pharaoh; and he said unto them, Go, serve the
Lord your God; but who are they that shall go?

9 And Moses said, We will
go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our
daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must
hold a feast unto the Lord.

10 And he said unto them,
Let the Lord be so with you, as I will let you go, and your little
ones; look to it; for evil is before you.

11 Not so; go now ye that
are men, and serve the Lord; for that ye did desire. And they were
driven out from Pharaoh's presence.

12 And the Lord said unto
Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts,
that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of
the land, even all that the hail hath left.

13 And Moses stretched
forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought an east
wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was
morning, the east wind brought the locusts.

14 And the locusts went
up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt;
very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as
they, neither after them shall be such.

15 For they covered the
face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did
eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the
hail had left; and there remained not any green thing in the trees,
or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.

16 Then Pharaoh called
for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned against the
Lord your God, and against you.

17 Now therefore forgive,
I pray thee, my sin only this once, and entreat the Lord your God,
that he may take away from me this death only.

18 And he went out from
Pharaoh, and entreated the Lord.

19 And the Lord turned a
mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them
into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of
Egypt.

20 But Pharaoh hardened
his heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go.

21 And the Lord said unto
Moses, Stretch out thine hand, toward heaven, that there may be
darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.

22 And Moses stretched
forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all
the land of Egypt three days;

23 They saw not one
another, neither rose any from his place for three days; but all the
children of Israel had light in their dwellings.

24 And Pharaoh called
unto Moses, and said, Go ye, serve the Lord; only let your flocks and
your herds be stayed; let your little ones also go with you.

25 And Moses said, Thou
must give us also sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may
sacrifice unto the Lord our God.

26 Our cattle also shall
go with us; there shall not a hoof be left behind; for thereof must
we take to serve the Lord our God; and we know not with what we must
serve the Lord, until we come thither.

27 But Pharaoh hardened
his heart, and he would not let them go.

28 And Pharaoh said unto
him, Get thee from me, take heed to thyself, see my face no more; for
in that day thou seest my face thou shalt die.

29 And Moses said, Thou
hast spoken well, I will see thy face again no more.

EXODUS
11

1 And the Lord said unto
Moses, Yet will I bring one plague more upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt;
afterwards he will let you go hence; when he shall let you go, he
shall surely thrust you out hence altogether.

2 Speak now in the ears
of the people, and let every man borrow of his neighbor, and every
woman of her neighbor, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold.

3 And the Lord gave the
people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover, the man Moses
was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's
servants, and in the sight of the people.

4 And Moses said, Thus
saith the Lord, About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt;

5 And all the firstborn
in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that
sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant
that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts.

6 And there shall be a
great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there was none
like it, nor shall be like it any more.

7 But against any of the
children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or
beast; that ye may know how that the Lord doth put a difference
between the Egyptians and Israel.

8 And all these the
servants of Pharaoh shall come down unto me, and bow themselves down
unto me, saying, Get thee out, and all the people that follow thee;
and after that I will go out.

9 And the Lord said unto
Moses, Pharaoh will not hearken unto you; therefore my wonders shall
be multiplied in the land of Egypt.

10 And Moses and Aaron
did all these wonders before Pharaoh, and they went out from Pharaoh,
and he was in great anger. And Pharaoh hardened his heart, so that he
would not let the children of Israel go out of his land.

EXODUS
12

1 And the Lord spake unto
Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,

2 This month shall be
unto you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the
year to you.

3 Speak ye unto all the
congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they
shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their
fathers, a lamb for a house;

4 And if the household be
too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next unto his house
take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to
his eating shall make your count for the lamb.

5 Your lamb shall be
without blemish, a male of the first year; ye shall take it out from
the sheep, or from the goats;

6 And ye shall keep it up
until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of
the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.

7 And they shall take of
the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper
doorpost of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.

8 And they shall eat the
flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with
bitter herbs they shall eat it.

9 Eat not of it raw, nor
sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his
legs, and with the purtenance thereof.

10 And ye shall let
nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of
it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.

11 And thus shall ye eat
it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff
in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste; it is the Lord's
passover.

12 For I will pass
through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the
firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all
the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment; I am the Lord.

13 And the blood shall be
to you for a token upon the houses where ye are; and when I see the
blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to
destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.

14 And this day shall be
unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the Lord
throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance
forever.

15 Seven days shall ye
eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out
of your houses; for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first
day until the seventh day that soul shall be cut off from Israel.

16 And in the first day
there shall be a holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall
be a holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in
them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of
you.

17 And ye shall observe
the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I
brought your armies out of the land of Egypt; therefore shall ye
observe this day in your generations by an ordinance forever.

18 In the first month, on
the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened
bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.

19 Seven days shall there
be no leaven found in your houses; for whosoever eateth that which is
leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of
Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.

21 Then Moses called for
all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a
lamb according to your families, and kill the passover.

22 And ye shall take a
bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and
strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in
the basin; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house
until the morning.

23 For the Lord will pass
through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the
lintel, and on the two side posts, the Lord will pass over the door,
and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to
smite you.

24 And ye shall observe
this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons forever.

25 And it shall come to
pass, when ye be come to the land which the Lord will give you,
according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service.

26 And it shall come to
pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this
service?

27 That ye shall say, It
is the sacrifice of the Lord's passover, who passed over the houses
of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and
delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshiped.

28 And the children of
Israel went away, and did as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron,
so did they.

29 And it came to pass,
that at midnight the Lord smote all the firstborn in the land of
Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the
firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the
firstborn of cattle.

30 And Pharaoh rose up in
the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there
was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was
not one dead.

31 And he called for
Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, and get you forth from
among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve
the Lord, as ye have said.

32 Also take your flocks
and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also.

33 And the Egyptians were
urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in
haste; for they said, We have found our firstborn all dead; therefore
get ye out of the land lest we die also.

34 And the people took
their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being
bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.

35 And the children of
Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the
Egyptians jewels of silver and jewels of gold, and raiment;

36 And the Lord gave the
people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto
them such things as they required; and they spoiled the Egyptians.

37 And the children of
Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand
men on foot, besides women and children.

38 And a mixed multitude
went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.

39 And they baked
unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt,
for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and
could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any
victuals.

40 Now the sojourning of
the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and
thirty years.

41 And it came to pass at
the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day
it came to pass, that all the hosts of the Lord went out from the
land of Egypt.

42 It is a night to be
much observed unto the Lord for bringing them out from the land of
Egypt; this is that night of the Lord to be observed of all the
children of Israel in their generations.

43 And the Lord said unto
Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover; there shall
no stranger eat thereof;

44 But every man's
servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him,
then shall he eat thereof.

45 A foreigner and a
hired servant shall not eat thereof.

46 In one house shall it
be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth aught of the flesh abroad out of
the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof.

47 All the congregation
of Israel shall keep it.

48 And when a stranger
shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the Lord, let
all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it;
and he shall be as one that is born in the land; for no uncircumcised
person shall eat thereof.

49 One law shall be to
him that is home-born, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among
you.

50 Thus did all the
children of Israel; as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron, so did
they.

51 And it came to pass
the selfsame day, that the Lord did bring the children of Israel out
of the land of Egypt by their armies.

EXODUS 13

1 And the Lord spake unto
Moses, saying,

2 Sanctify unto me all
the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of
Israel, both of man and of beast; it is mine.

3 And Moses said unto the
people, Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of
the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the Lord brought you
out from this place; there shall no leavened bread be eaten.

4 This day came ye out in
the month Abib.

5 And it shall be when
the Lord shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, and the
Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which
he sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and
honey, that thou shalt keep this service in this month.

6 Seven days thou shalt
eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the
Lord.

7 Unleavened bread shall
be eaten seven days; and there shall no leavened bread be seen with
thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee in all thy
quarters.

8 And thou shalt show thy
son in that day, saying, This is done because of that which the Lord
did unto me when I came forth out of Egypt.

9 And it shall be for a
sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine
eyes, that the Lord's law may be in thy mouth; for with a strong hand
hath the Lord brought thee out of Egypt.

10 Thou shalt therefore
keep this ordinance in his season from year to year.

11 And it shall be when
the Lord shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, as he
sware unto thee and thy fathers, and shall give it thee,

12 That thou shalt set
apart unto the Lord all that openeth the matrix, and every firstling
that cometh of a beast which thou hast; the male shall be the Lord's.

13 And every firstling of
an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it,
then thou shalt break his neck; and all the firstborn of man among
thy children shalt thou redeem.

14 And it shall be when
thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What is this? that thou
shalt say unto him, By strength of hand the Lord brought us out from
Egypt, from the house of bondage;

15 And it came to pass,
when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that the Lord slew all the
firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the
firstborn of beast; therefore I sacrifice to the Lord all that
openeth the matrix, being males; but all the firstborn of my children
I redeem.

16 And it shall be for a
token upon thine hand, and for frontlets between thine eyes; for by
strength of hand the Lord brought us forth out of Egypt.

17 And it came to pass,
when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the
way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God
said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they
return to Egypt;

18 But God led the people
about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea; and the
children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt.

19 And Moses took the
bones of Joseph with him; for he had straitly sworn the children of
Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and ye shall carry up my
bones away hence with you.

20 And they took their
journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the
wilderness.

21 And the Lord went
before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and
by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and
night.

22 He took not away the
pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from
before the people.

EXODUS 14

1 And the Lord spake unto
Moses, saying,

2 Speak unto the children
of Israel, that they turn and encamp before Pi-hahiroth, between
Migdol and the sea, over against Baal-zephon; before it shall ye
encamp by the sea.

3 For Pharaoh will say of
the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the
wilderness hath shut them in.

4 And Pharaoh will harden
his heart, and he shall follow after them; and I will be honored upon
Pharaoh, and upon all his host; that the Egyptians may know that I am
the Lord. And they did so.

5 And it was told the
king of Egypt that the people fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of
his servants was turned against the people, and they said, Why have
we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us?

6 And he made ready his
chariot, and took his people with him;

7 And he took six hundred
chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over
every one of them.

8 And Pharaoh hardened
his heart, and he pursued after the children of Israel; and the
children of Israel went out with a high hand.

9 But the Egyptians
pursued after them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, and his
horsemen, and his army, and overtook them encamping by the sea,
beside Pi-hahiroth, before Baal-zephon.

10 And when Pharaoh drew
nigh, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the
Egyptians marched after them; and they were sore afraid; and the
children of Israel cried out unto the Lord.

11 And they said unto
Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away
to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to
carry us forth out of Egypt?

12 Is not this the word
that we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may
serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the
Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.

13 And Moses said unto
the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the
Lord, which he will show to you today; for the Egyptians whom ye have
seen today, ye shall see them again no more forever.

14 The Lord shall fight
for you, and ye shall hold your peace.

15 And the Lord said unto
Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of
Israel, that they go forward;

16 But lift thou up thy
rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it; and the
children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the
sea.

17 And I say unto thee
the hearts of the Egyptians shall be hardened, and they shall follow
them; and I will get me honor upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host,
upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.

18 And the Egyptians
shall know that I am the Lord, when I have gotten me honor upon
Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.

19 And the Angel of God,
which went before the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them;
and the pillar of the cloud went from before their face, and stood
behind them;

20 And it came between
the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud
and darkness to the Egyptians, but it gave light by night to the
Israelites, so that the one came not near the other all the night.

21 And Moses stretched
out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go back by
a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the
waters were divided.

22 And the children of
Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry

ground; and the waters
were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.

23 And the Egyptians
pursued, and went in after them to the midst of the sea, even all
Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.

24 And it came to pass,
that in the morning watch the Lord looked unto the host of the
Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled
the host of the Egyptians.

25 And took off their
chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily; so that the Egyptians
said, Let us flee from the face of Israel; for the Lord fighteth for
them against the Egyptians.

26 And the Lord said unto
Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the waters may come
again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their
horsemen.

27 And Moses stretched
forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength
when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the
Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.

28 And the waters
returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the
host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not
so much as one of them.

29 But the children of
Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea; and the waters
were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.

30 Thus the Lord saved
Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the
Egyptians dead upon the seashore.

31 And Israel saw that
great work which the Lord did upon the Egyptians; and the people
feared the Lord, and believed the Lord, and his servant Moses.

EXODUS
15

1 Then sang Moses and the
children of Israel this song unto the Lord, and spake, saying, I will
sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse and
his rider hath he thrown into the sea.

2 The Lord is my strength
and song, and he is become my salvation; he is my God, and I will
prepare him a habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt him.

3 The Lord is a man of
war; the Lord is his name.

4 Pharaoh's chariots and
his host hath he cast into the sea; his chosen captains also are
drowned in the Red sea.

5 The depths have covered
them; they sank into the bottom as a stone.

6 Thy right hand, O Lord,
is become glorious in power; thy right hand, O Lord, hath dashed in
pieces the enemy.

7 And in the greatness of
thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee;
thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble.

8 And with the blast of
thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood
upright as a heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the
sea.

9 The enemy said, I will
pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be
satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy
them.

10 Thou didst blow with
thy wind, the sea covered them; they sank as lead in the mighty
waters.

11 Who is like unto thee,
O Lord, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness,
fearful in praises, doing wonders?

14 The people shall hear,
and be afraid; sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of
Palestina.

15 Then the dukes of Edom
shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold
upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away.

16 Fear and dread shall
fall upon them; by the greatness of thine arm they shall be as still
as a stone; till the people pass over, O Lord, till the people pass
over, which thou hast purchased.

17 Thou shalt bring them
in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, in the
place, O Lord, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in; in the
sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established.

18 The Lord shall reign
forever and ever.

19 For the horse of
Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea,
and the Lord brought again the waters of the sea upon them; but the
children of Israel went on dry land in the midst of the sea.

20 And Miriam the
prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all
the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.

21 And Miriam answered
them, Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously; the
horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.

22 So Moses brought
Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of
Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.

23 And when they came to
Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were
bitter; therefore the name of it was called Marah.

24 And the people
murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?

25 And he cried unto the
Lord; and the Lord showed him a tree, which when he had cast into the
waters, the waters were made sweet; there he made for them a statute
and an ordinance, and there he proved them,

26 And said, If thou wilt
diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that
which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments,
and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon
thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians; for I am the Lord that
healeth thee.

27 And they came to Elim,
where were twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten palm trees;
and they encamped there by the waters.

EXODUS 16

1 And they took their
journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel
came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on
the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of
the land of Egypt.

2 And the whole
congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and
Aaron in the wilderness;

3 And the children of
Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the
Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the fleshpots, and when we
did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this
wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.

4 Then said the Lord unto
Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people
shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove
them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.

5 And it shall come to
pass, that on the sixth day they shall prepare that which they bring
in; and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily.

6 And Moses and Aaron
said unto all the children of Israel, At even, then ye shall know
that the Lord hath brought you out from the land of Egypt;

7 And in the morning,
then ye shall see the glory of the Lord; for that he heareth your
murmurings against the Lord; and what are we, that ye murmur against
us?

8 And Moses said, This
shall be, when the Lord shall give you in the evening flesh to eat,
and in the morning bread to the full; for that the Lord heareth your
murmurings which ye murmur against him; and what are we? your
murmurings are not against us, but against the Lord.

9 And Moses spake unto
Aaron, Say unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, Come
near before the Lord; for he hath heard your murmurings.

10 And it came to pass,
as Aaron spake unto the whole congregation of the children of Israel,
that they looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of the
Lord appeared in the cloud.

11 And the Lord spake
unto Moses, saying,

12 I have heard the
murmurings of the children of Israel; speak unto them, saying, At
even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with
bread; and ye shall know that I am the Lord your God.

13 And it came to pass,
that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp; and in the
morning the dew lay round about the host.

14 And when the dew that
lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a
small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground.

15 And when the children
of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna; for they
wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread
which the Lord hath given you to eat.

16 This is the thing
which the Lord hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to
his eating, an omer for every man, according to the number of your
persons; take ye every man for them which are in his tents.

17 And the children of
Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less.

18 And when they did mete
it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that
gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his
eating.

19 And Moses said, Let no
man leave of it till the morning.

20 Notwithstanding they
hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the
morning, and it bred worms, and stank; and Moses was wroth with them.

21 And they gathered it
every morning, every man according to his eating; and when the sun
waxed hot, it melted.

22 And it came to pass,
that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers
for one man; and all the rulers of the congregation came and told
Moses.

23 And he said unto them,
This is that which the Lord hath said, Tomorrow is the rest of the
holy sabbath unto the Lord; bake that which ye will bake today, and
seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for
you to be kept until the morning.

24 And they laid it up
till the morning, as Moses bade; and it did not stink, neither was
there any worm therein.

25 And Moses said, Eat
that today; for today is a sabbath unto the Lord; today ye shall not
find it in the field.

26 Six days ye shall
gather it; but on the seventh day, which is the sabbath, in it there
shall be none.

27 And it came to pass,
that there went out some of the people on the seventh day for to
gather, and they found none.

28 And the Lord said unto
Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?

29 See, for that the Lord
hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day
the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go
out of his place on the seventh day.

30 So the people rested
on the seventh day.

31 And the house of
Israel called the name thereof Manna; and it was like coriander seed,
white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.

32 And Moses said, This
is the thing which the Lord commandeth, Fill an omer of it to be kept
for your generations; that they may see the bread wherewith I have
fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of
Egypt.

33 And Moses said unto
Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it
up before the Lord, to be kept for your generations.

34 As the Lord commanded
Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.

35 And the children of
Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land
inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of
the land of Canaan.

36 Now an omer is the
tenth part of an ephah.

EXODUS 17

1 And all the
congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness
of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the
Lord, and pitched in Rephidim; and there was no water for the people
to drink.

2 Wherefore the people
did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And
Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the
Lord?

3 And the people thirsted
there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said,
Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill
us and our children and our cattle with thirst?

4 And Moses cried unto
the Lord, saying, What shall I do unto this people? they be almost
ready to stone me.

5 And the Lord said unto
Moses, Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of
Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine
hand, and go.

6 Behold, I will stand
before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the
rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may
drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.

7 And he called the name
of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the
children of Israel, and because they tempted the Lord, saying, Is the
Lord among us, or not?

8 Then came Amalek, and
fought with Israel in Rephidim.

9 And Moses said unto
Joshua, Choose us out men, and go out, fight with Amalek; tomorrow I
will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in mine hand.

10 So Joshua did as Moses
had said to him, and fought with Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur
went up to the top of the hill.

11 And it came to pass,
when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed; and when he let
down his hand, Amalek prevailed.

12 But Moses' hands were
heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat
thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one
side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady
until the going down of the sun.

13 And Joshua discomfited
Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.

14 And the Lord said unto
Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book and rehearse it in the
ears of Joshua; for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek
from under heaven.

15 And Moses built an
altar, and called the name of it Jehovah- nissi;

16 For he said, Because
the Lord hath sworn that the Lord will have war with Amalek from
generation to generation.

EXODUS
18

1 When Jethro, the high
priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard of all that God had
done for Moses, and for Israel his people, and that the Lord had
brought Israel out of Egypt;

2 Then Jethro, Moses'
father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her
back,

3 And her two sons; of
which the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have been an
alien in a strange land;

4 And the name of the
other was Eliezer; for the God of my father, said he, was mine help,
and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh;

5 And Jethro, Moses'
father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife unto Moses into the
wilderness, where he encamped at the mount of God;

6 And he said unto Moses,
I thy father-in-law Jethro am come unto thee, and thy wife, and her
two sons with her.

7 And Moses went out to
meet his father-in-law, and did obeisance, and kissed him; and they
asked each other of their welfare; and they came into the tent.

8 And Moses told his
father-in-law all that the Lord had done unto Pharaoh and to the
Egyptians for Israel's sake, and all the travail that had come upon
them by the way, and how the Lord delivered them.

9 And Jethro rejoiced for
all the goodness which the Lord had done to Israel, whom he had
delivered out of the hand of the Egyptians.

10 And Jethro said,
Blessed be the Lord, who hath delivered you out of the hand of the
Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh, who hath delivered the
people from under the hand of the Egyptians.

11 Now I know that the
Lord is greater than all gods; for in the thing wherein they dealt
proudly he was above them.

12 And Jethro, Moses'
father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God; and
Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses'
father-in-law before God.

13 And it came to pass on
the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people; and the people stood
by Moses from the morning unto the evening.

14 And when Moses'
father-in-law saw all that he did to the people, he said, What is
this thing that thou doest to the people? Why sittest thou thyself
alone, and all the people stand by thee from morning unto even?

15 And Moses said unto
his father-in-law, Because the people come unto me to inquire of God;

16 When they have a
matter, they come unto me; and I judge between one and another, and I
do make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.

17 And Moses'
father-in-law said unto him, The thing that thou doest is not good.

18 Thou wilt surely wear
away, both thou, and this people that is with thee; for this thing is
too heavy for thee; thou art not able to perform it thyself alone.

19 Hearken now unto my
voice, I will give thee counsel, and God shall be with thee; Be thou
for the people to God-ward, that thou mayest bring the causes unto
God;

20 And thou shalt teach
them ordinances and laws, and shalt show them the way wherein they
must walk, and the work that they must do.

21 Moreover thou shalt
provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of
truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of
thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of
tens;

22 And let them judge the
people at all seasons; and it shall be, that every great matter they
shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge; so
shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall bear the burden with
thee.

23 If thou shalt do this
thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able to endure,
and all this people shall also go to their place in peace.

24 So Moses hearkened to
the voice of his father-in-law, and did all that he had said.

25 And Moses chose able
men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of
thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.

26 And they judged the
people at all seasons; the hard causes they brought unto Moses, but
every small matter they judged themselves.

27 And Moses let his
father-in-law depart; and he went his way into his own land.

EXODUS 19

1 In the third month,
when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt,
the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai.

2 For they were departed
from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched
in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount.

3 And Moses went up unto
God, and the Lord called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus
shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of
Israel;

4 Ye have seen what I did
unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought
you unto myself.

5 Now therefore, if ye
will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a
peculiar treasure unto me above all people; for all the earth is
mine;

6 And ye shall be unto me
a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation. These are the words which
thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.

7 And Moses came and
called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all
these words which the Lord commanded him.

8 And all the people
answered together, and said, All that the Lord hath spoken we will
do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the Lord.

9 And the Lord said unto
Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may
hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee forever. And Moses told
the words of the people unto the Lord.

10 And the Lord said unto
Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them today and tomorrow, and
let them wash their clothes,

11 And be ready against
the third day; for the third day the Lord will come down in the sight
of all the people upon mount Sinai.

12 And thou shalt set
bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves,
that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it;
whosoever thoucheth the mount shall be surely put to death;

13 There shall not a hand
touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it
be beast or man, it shall not live; when the trumpet soundeth long,
they shall come up to the mount.

14 And Moses went down
from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they
washed their clothes.

15 And he said unto the
people, Be ready against the third day; come not at your wives.

16 And it came to pass on
the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and
lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the
trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp
trembled.

17 And Moses brought
forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at
the nether part of the mount.

18 And mount Sinai was
altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire;
and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the
whole mount quaked greatly.

19 And when the voice of
the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake,
and God answered him by a voice.

20 And the Lord came down
upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount; and the Lord called Moses
up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up.

21 And the Lord said unto
Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the
Lord to gaze, and many of them perish.

22 And let the priests
also, which come near to the Lord, sanctify themselves, lest the Lord
break forth upon them.

23 And Moses said unto
the Lord, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai; for thou
chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it.

24 And the Lord said unto
him, Away, get thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron
with thee; but let not the priests and the people break through to
come up unto the Lord, lest he break forth upon them.

25 So Moses went down
unto the people, and spake unto them.

EXODUS 20

1 And God spake all these
words, saying,

2 I am the Lord thy God,
which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of
bondage.

3 Thou shalt have no
other gods before me.

4 Thou shalt not make
unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in
heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the
water under the earth;

5 Thou shalt not bow down
thyself to them, nor serve them; for I the Lord thy God am a jealous
God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the
third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

6 And showing mercy unto
thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

7 Thou shalt not take the
name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him
guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

8 Remember the sabbath
day, to keep it holy.

9 Six days shalt thou
labor, and do all thy work;

10 But the seventh day is
the sabbath of the Lord thy God; in it thou shalt not do any work,
thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy
maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy
gates;

11 For in six days the
Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and
rested the seventh day; wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day,
and hallowed it.

12 Honor thy father and
thy mother; that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord
thy God giveth thee.

18 And all the people saw
the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet,
and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they removed,
and stood afar off.

19 And they said unto
Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear; but let not God speak
with us, lest we die.

20 And Moses said unto
the people, Fear not; for God is come to prove you, and that his fear
may be before your faces, that ye sin not.

21 And the people stood
afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.

22 And the Lord said unto
Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, Ye have seen
that I have talked with you from heaven.

23 Ye shall not make unto
you gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold.

24 An altar of earth thou
shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings,
and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen; in all places
where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.

25 And if thou wilt make
me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone; for if
thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it.

2 If thou buy a Hebrew
servant, six years he shall serve; and in the seventh he shall go out
free for nothing.

3 If he came in by
himself, he shall go out by himself; if he were married, then his
wife shall go out with him.

4 If his master have
given him a wife, and she have borne him sons or daughters; the wife
and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by
himself.

5 And if the servant
shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will
not go out free;

6 Then his master shall
bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to his door, or
unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an
awl; and he shall serve him forever.

7 And if a man sell his
daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants
do.

8 If she please not her
master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be
redeemed, not to sell her unto a strange nation; he shall have no
power to do this, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.

9 And if he have
betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner
of daughters.

10 If he take him another
wife, her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not
diminish.

11 And if he do not these
three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.

12 He that smiteth a man,
so that he die, shall be surely put to death.

13 And if a man lie not
in wait, but God deliver him into his hand then I will appoint thee a
place whither he shall flee.

14 But if a man come
presumptuously upon his neighbor, to slay him with guile; thou shalt
take him from mine altar, that he may die.

15 And he that smiteth
his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.

16 And he that stealeth a
man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely
be put to death.

17 And he that curseth
his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

18 And if men strive
together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and
he die not, but keepeth his bed;

19 If he rise again, and
walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit;
only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be
thoroughly healed.

20 And if a man smite his
servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall
surely be put to death.

21 Notwithstanding, if he
continue a day or two, and recover, he shall not be put to death, for
he is his servant.

22 If men strive, and
hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet
no mischief follow; he shall be surely punished, according as the
woman's husband will lay upon him, and he shall pay as the judges
determine.

23 And if any mischief
follow, then thou shalt give life for life,

24 Eye for eye, tooth for
tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

25 Burning for burning,
wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

26 And if a man smite the
eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall
let him go free for his eye's sake.

27 And if he smite out
his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him
go free for his tooth's sake.

28 If an ox gore a man or
a woman, that they die; then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his
flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall be quit.

29 But if the ox were
wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified
to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a
man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be
put to death.

30 If there be laid on
him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life
whatsoever is laid upon him.

31 Whether he have gored
a son, or have gored a daughter, according to this judgment shall it
be done unto him.

32 If the ox shall push a
manservant or a maidservant; he shall give unto their master thirty
shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.

33 And if a man shall
open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox
or an ass fall therein;

34 The owner of the pit
shall make it good, and give money unto the owner of them; and the
dead beast shall be his.

35 And if one man's ox
hurt another's, that he die; then they shall sell the live ox, and
divide the money of it; and the dead ox also they shall divide.

36 Or if it be known that
the ox hath used to push in time past, and his owner hath not kept
him in; he shall surely pay ox for ox; and the dead shall be his own.

EXODUS
22

1 If a man shall steal an
ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen
for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.

2 If a thief be found
breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed
for him.

3 If the sun be risen
upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full
restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

4 If the theft be
certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or
sheep; he shall restore double.

5 If a man shall cause a
field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in his beast, and shall
feed in another man's field; of the best of his own field, and of the
best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution.

6 If fire break out, and
catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or
the field, be consumed therewith; he that kindled the fire shall
surely make restitution.

7 If a man shall deliver
unto his neighbor money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the
man's house; if the thief be found, let him pay double.

8 If the thief be not
found, then the master of the house shall be brought unto the judges,
to see whether he have put his hand unto his neighbor's goods.

9 For all manner of
trespass, whether it be for ox, for ass, for sheep, for raiment, or
for any manner of lost thing, which another challengeth to be his,
the cause of both parties shall come before the judges; and whom the
judges shall condemn, he shall pay double unto his neighbor.

10 If a man deliver unto
his neighbor an ass, or an ox, or a sheep, or any beast, to keep; and
it die, or be hurt, or driven away, no man seeing it;

11 Then shall an oath of
the Lord be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his
neighbor's goods; and the owner of it shall accept thereof, and he
shall not make it good.

12 And if it be stolen
from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof.

13 If it be torn in
pieces, then let him bring it for witness, and he shall not make good
that which was torn.

14 And if a man borrow
aught of his neighbor, and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof
being not with it, he shall surely make it good.

15 But if the owner
thereof be with it, he shall not make it good; if it be a hired
thing, it came for his hire.

16 And if a man entice a
maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow
her to be his wife.

17 If her father utterly
refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the
dowry of virgins.

18 Thou shalt not suffer
a murderer to live.

19 Whosoever lieth with a
beast shall surely be put to death.

20 He that sacrificeth
unto any god, save unto the Lord only, he shall be utterly destroyed.

21 Thou shalt neither vex
a stranger, nor oppress him; for ye were strangers in the land of
Egypt.

22 Ye shall not afflict
any widow, or fatherless child.

23 If thou afflict them
in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their
cry;

24 And my wrath shall wax
hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be
widows, and your children fatherless.

25 If thou lend money to
any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as a
usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.

26 If thou at all take
thy neighbor's raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by
that the sun goeth down;

27 For that is his
covering only, it is his raiment for his skin; wherein shall he
sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will
hear; for I am gracious.

29 Thou shalt not delay
to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors; the
firsborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.

30 Likewise shalt thou do
with thine oxen, and with thy sheep; seven days it shall be with his
dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me.

31 And ye shall be holy
men unto me; neither shall ye eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in
the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs.

EXODUS
23

1 Thou shalt not raise a
false report; put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous
witness.

2 Thou shalt not follow a
multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline
after many to wrest judgment;

3 Neither shalt thou
countenance a wicked man in his cause.

4 If thou meet thine
enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back
to him again.

5 If thou see the ass of
him that hateth thee lying under his burden, and wouldest forbear to
help him, thou shalt surely help with him.

6 Thou shalt not wrest
the judgment of thy poor in his cause.

7 Keep thee far from a
false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not; for I
will not justify the wicked.

8 And thou shalt take no
gift; for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the
righteous.

9 Also thou shalt not
oppress a stranger; for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye
were strangers in the land of Egypt.

10 And six years thou
shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof;

11 But the seventh year
thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may
eat; and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like
manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.

12 Six days thou shalt do
thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest; that thine ox and
thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger,
may be refreshed.

13 And in all things that
I have said unto you be circumspect; and make no mention of the name
of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.

14 Three times thou shalt
keep a feast unto me in the year.

15 Thou shalt keep the
feast of unleavened bread; (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven
days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib;
for in it thou camest out from Egypt; and none shall appear before me
empty;)

16 And the feast of
harvest, the firstfruits of thy labors, which thou hast sown in the
field; and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year,
when thou hast gathered in thy labors out of the field.

17 Three times in the
year all thy males shall appear before the Lord God.

18 Thou shalt not offer
the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat
of my sacrifice remain until the morning.

19 The first of the
firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the Lord
thy God. Thou shalt not seeth a kid in his mother's milk.

20 Behold, I send an
Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into
the place which I have prepared.

21 Beware of him, and
obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your
transgressions; for my name is in him.

22 But if thou shalt
indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an
enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.

23 For mine Angel shall
go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the
Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and
the Jebusites; and I will cut them off.

24 Thou shalt not bow
down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works; but
thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.

25 And ye shall serve the
Lord your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I
will take sickness away from the midst of thee.

26 There shall nothing
cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land; the number of thy days
I will fulfill.

27 I will send my fear
before thee, and I will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt
come; and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.

28 And I will send
hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite,
and the Hittite, from before thee.

29 I will not drive them
out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and
the beast of the field multiply against thee.

30 By little and little I
will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and
inherit the land.

31 And I will set thy
bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and
from the desert unto the river; for I will deliver the inhabitants of
the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.

32 Thou shalt make no
covenant with them, nor with their gods.

33 They shall not dwell
in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me; for if thou serve
their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.

EXODUS 24

1 And he said unto Moses,
Come up unto the Lord, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy
of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off.

2 And Moses alone shall
come near the Lord; but they shall not come nigh; neither shall the
people go up with him.

3 And Moses came and told
the people all the words of the Lord, and all the judgments; and all
the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the
Lord hath said will we do.

4 And Moses wrote all the
words of the Lord, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an
altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve
tribes of Israel.

5 And he sent young men
of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and
sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the Lord.

6 And Moses took half of
the blood, and put it in basins; and half of the blood he sprinkled
on the altar.

7 And he took the book of
the covenant, and read in the audience of the people; and they said,
All that the Lord hath said will we do, and be obedient.

8 And Moses took the
blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of
the covenant, which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these
words.

9 Then went up Moses, and
Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel;

10 And they saw the God
of Israel; and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a
sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.

11 And upon the nobles of
the children of Israel he laid not his hand; also they saw God, and
did eat and drink.

12 And the Lord said unto
Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there; and I will give
thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have
written; that thou mayest teach them.

13 And Moses rose up, and
his minister Joshua; and Moses went up into the mount of God.

14 And he said unto the
elders, Tarry ye here for us, until we come again unto you; and,
behold, Aaron and Hur are with you; if any man have any matters to
do, let him come unto them.

15 And Moses went up into
the mount, and a cloud covered the mount.

16 And the glory of the
Lord abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days; and
the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud.

17 And the sight of the
glory of the Lord was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in
the eyes of the children of Israel.

18 And Moses went into
the midst of the cloud, and gat him up into the mount; and Moses was
in the mount forty days and forty nights.

EXODUS 25

1 And the Lord spake unto
Moses, saying,

2 Speak unto the children
of Israel, that they bring me an offering; of every man that giveth
it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering.

3 And this is the
offering which ye shall take of them; gold, and silver, and brass,

4 And blue, and purple,
and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair,

5 And rams' skins dyed
red, and badgers' skins and shittim wood,

6 Oil for the light,
spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense,

7 Onyx stones, and stones
to be set in the ephod, and in the breastplate.

8 And let them make me a
sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.

9 According to all that I
show thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of
all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it.

10 And they shall make an
ark of shittim wood; two cubits and a half shall be the length
thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and
a half the height thereof.

11 And thou shalt overlay
it with pure gold, within and without shalt thou overlay it, and
shalt make upon it a crown of gold round about.

12 And thou shalt cast
four rings of gold for it, and put them in the four corners thereof;
and two rings shall be in the one side of it, and two rings in the
other side of it.

13 And thou shalt make
staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold.

14 And thou shalt put the
staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, that the ark may be
borne with them.

15 The staves shall be in
the rings of the ark; they shall not be taken from it.

16 And thou shalt put
into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee.

17 And thou shalt make a
mercy seat of pure gold; two cubits and a half shall be the length
thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.

18 And thou shalt make
two cherubim of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two
ends of the mercy seat.

19 And make one cherub on
the one end, and the other cherub on the other end; even of the mercy
seat shall ye make the cherubim on the two ends thereof.

20 And the cherubim shall
stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their
wings, and their faces shall look one to another; toward the mercy
seat shall the faces of the cherubim be.

21 And thou shalt put the
mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the
testimony that I shall give thee.

22 And there I will meet
with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat,
from between the two cherubim which are upon the ark of the
testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto
the children of Israel.

23 Thou shalt also make a
table of shittim wood; two cubits shall be the length thereof, and a
cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.

24 And thou shalt overlay
it with pure gold, and make thereto a crown of gold round about.

25 And thou shalt make
unto it a border of a handbreadth round about, and thou shalt make a
golden crown to the border thereof round about.

26 And thou shalt make
for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that
are on the four feet thereof.

27 Over against the
border shall the rings be for places of the staves to bear the table.

28 And thou shalt make
the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, that the
table may be borne with them.

29 And thou shalt make
the dishes thereof, and spoons thereof, and covers thereof, and bowls
thereof, to cover withal; of pure gold shalt thou make them.

30 And thou shalt set
upon the table showbread before me always.

31 And thou shalt make a
candlestick of pure gold; of beaten work shall the candlestick be
made; his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his
flowers shall be of the same.

32 And six branches shall
come out of the sides of it; three branches of the candlestick out of
the one side, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other
side;

33 Three bowls made like
unto almonds, with a knop and a flower in one branch; and three bowls
made like almonds in the other branch, with a knop and a flower; so
in the six branches that come out of the candlestick.

34 And in the candlestick
shall be four bowls made like unto almonds, with their knops and
their flowers.

35 And there shall be a
knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of
the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, according to the
six branches that proceed out of the candlestick.

36 Their knops and their
branches shall be of the same; all of it shall be one beaten work of
pure gold.

37 And thou shalt make
the seven lamps thereof; and they shall light the lamps thereof, that
they may give light over against it.

38 And the tongs thereof,
and the snuff dishes thereof, shall be of pure gold.

39 Of a talent of pure
gold shall he make it, with all these vessels.

40 And look that thou
make them after their pattern, which was showed thee in the mount.

EXODUS 26

1 Moreover thou shalt
make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue,
and purple, and scarlet; with cherubim of cunning work shalt thou
make them.

2 The length of one
curtain shall be eight and twenty cubits, and the breadth of one
curtain four cubits; and every one of the curtains shall have one
measure.

3 The five curtains shall
be coupled together one to another; and other five curtains shall be
coupled one to another.

4 And thou shalt make
loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain from the selvage in
the coupling; and likewise shalt thou make in the uttermost edge of
another curtain, in the coupling of the second.

5 Fifty loops shalt thou
make in the one curtain, and fifty loops shalt thou make in the edge
of the curtain that is in the coupling of the second; that the loops
may take hold one of another.

6 And thou shalt make
fifty taches of gold, and couple the curtains together with the
taches; and it shall be one tabernacle.

7 And thou shalt make
curtains of goats' hair to be a covering upon the tabernacle; eleven
curtains shalt thou make.

8 The length of one
curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four
cubits; and the eleven curtains shall be all of one measure.

9 And thou shalt couple
five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and
shalt double the sixth curtain in the forefront of the tabernacle.

10 And thou shalt make
fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outmost in the
coupling, and fifty loops in the edge of the curtain which coupleth
the second.

11 And thou shalt make
fifty taches of brass, and put the taches into the loops, and couple
the tent together, that it may be one.

12 And the remnant that
remaineth of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that
remaineth, shall hang over the back side of the tabernacle.

13 And a cubit on the one
side, and a cubit on the other side of that which remaineth in the
length of the curtains of the tent, it shall hang over the sides of
the tabernacle, on this side and on that side, to cover it.

14 And thou shalt make a
covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering above
of badgers' skins.

15 And thou shalt make
boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood standing up.

16 Ten cubits shall be
the length of a board, and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of
one board.

17 Two tenons shall there
be in one board, set in order one against another; thus shalt thou
make for all the boards of the tabernacle.

18 And thou shalt make
the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards on the south side
southward.

19 And thou shalt make
forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under
one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for
his two tenons.

20 And for the second
side of the tabernacle on the north side there shall be twenty
boards.

21 And their forty
sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under
another board.

22 And for the sides of
the tabernacle westward thou shalt make six boards.

23 And two boards shalt
thou make for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides.

24 And they shall be
coupled together beneath, and they shall be coupled together above
the head of it unto one ring; thus shall it be for them both; they
shall be for the two corners.

25 And they shall be
eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two
sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.

26 And thou shalt make
bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the
tabernacle,

27 And five bars for the
boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the
boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the two sides westward.

28 And the middle bar in
the midst of the boards shall reach from end to end.

29 And thou shalt overlay
the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the
bars; and thou shalt overlay the bars with gold.

30 And thou shalt rear up
the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which was showed thee
in the mount.

31 And thou shalt make a
veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of
cunning work; with cherubim shall it be made.

32 And thou shalt hang it
upon four pillars of shittim wood overlaid with gold; their hooks
shall be of gold, upon the four sockets of silver.

33 And thou shalt hang up
the veil under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within
the veil the ark of the testimony; and the veil shall divide unto you
between the holy place and the most holy.

34 And thou shalt put the
mercy seat upon the ark of the testimony in the most holy place.

35 And thou shalt set the
table without the veil, and the candlestick over against the table on
the side of the tabernacle toward the south; and thou shalt put the
table on the north side.

36 And thou shalt make a
hanging for the door of the tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet,
and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework.

37 And thou shalt make
for the hanging five pillars of shittim wood, and overlay them with
gold, and their hooks shall be of gold; and thou shalt cast five
sockets of brass for them.

EXODUS
27

1 And thou shalt make an
altar of shittim wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the
altar shall be foursquare; and the height thereof shall be three
cubits.

2 And thou shalt make the
horns of it upon the four corners thereof; his horns shall be of the
same; and thou shalt overlay it with brass.

3 And thou shalt make his
pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, and his basins, and his
fleshhooks, and his firepans; and all the vessels thereof thou shalt
make of brass.

4 And thou shalt make for
it a grate of network of brass; and upon the net shalt thou make four
brazen rings in the four corners thereof.

5 And thou shalt put it
under the compass of the altar beneath, that the net may be even to
the midst of the altar.

6 And thou shalt make
staves for the altar, staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with
brass.

7 And the staves shall be
put into the rings, and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the
altar, to bear it.

8 Hollow with boards
shalt thou make it; as it was showed thee in the mount, so shalt thou
make it.

9 And thou shalt make the
court of the tabernacle; for the south side southward there shall be
hangings for the court of fine twined linen of a hundred cubits long
for one side;

10 And the twenty pillars
thereof and their twenty sockets shall be of brass; the hooks of the
pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.

11 And likewise for the
north side in length there shall be hangings of a hundred cubits
long, and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of brass; the
hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.

12 And for the breadth of
the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits; their
pillars ten, and their sockets ten.

13 And the breadth of the
court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.

14 The hangings of one
side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and
their sockets three.

15 And on the other side
shall be hangings fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their
sockets three.

16 And for the gate of
the court shall be a hanging of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple,
and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework; and
their pillars shall be four, and their sockets four.

17 All the pillars round
about the court shall be filleted with silver; their hooks shall be
of silver, and their sockets of brass.

18 The length of the
court shall be a hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty everywhere,
and the height five cubits of fine twined linen, and their sockets of
brass.

19 All the vessels of the
tabernacle in all the service thereof, and all the pins thereof, and
all the pins of the court, shall be of brass.

20 And thou shalt command
the children of Israel, that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten
for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always.

21 In the tabernacle of
the congregation without the veil, which is before the testimony,
Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the
Lord; it shall be a statute forever unto their generations on the
behalf of the children of Israel.

EXODUS 28

1 And take thou unto thee
Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of
Israel, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office, even
Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's sons.

2 And thou shalt make
holy garments for Aaron thy brother, for glory and for beauty.

3 And thou shalt speak
unto all that are wisehearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of
wisdom, that they may make Aaron's garments to consecrate him, that
he may minister unto me in the priest's office.

4 And these are the
garments which they shall make; a breastplate, and an ephod, and a
robe, and a broidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle; and they shall
make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may
minister unto me in the priest's office.

5 And they shall take
gold, and blue, and purple; and scarlet, and fine linen.

6 And they shall make the
ephod of gold, of blue, and of purple, of scarlet, and fine twined
linen, with cunning work.

7 It shall have the two
shoulder-pieces thereof joined at the two edges thereof; and so it
shall be joined together.

8 And the curious girdle
of the ephod, which is upon it, shall be of the same, according to
the work thereof; even of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and
fine twined linen.

9 And thou shalt take two
onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel;

10 Six of their names on
one stone, and the other six names of the rest on the other stone,
according to their birth.

11 With the work of an
engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou
engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel; thou
shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold.

12 And thou shalt put the
two stones upon the shoulders of the ephod for stones of memorial
unto the children of Israel; and Aaron shall bear their names before
the Lord upon his two shoulders for a memorial.

13 And thou shalt make
ouches of gold;

14 And two chains of pure
gold at the ends; of wreathen work shalt thou make them, and fasten
the wreathen chains to the ouches.

15 And thou shalt make
the breastplate of judgment with cunning work; after the work of the
ephod thou shalt make it; of gold, of blue, and of purple, and of
scarlet, and of fine twined linen, shalt thou make it.

16 Foursquare it shall be
being doubled; a span shall be the length thereof, and a span shall
be the breadth thereof.

17 And thou shalt set in
it settings of stones, even four rows of stones; the first row shall
be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle; this shall be the first row.

18 And the second row
shall be an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.

19 And the third row a
ligure, and agate, and an amethyst.

20 And the fourth row a
beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper; they shall be set in gold in their
enclosings.

21 And the stones shall
be with the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to
their names, like the engravings of a signet; every one with his name
shall they be according to the twelve tribes.

22 And thou shalt make
upon the breastplate chains at the ends of wreathen work of pure
gold.

23 And thou shalt make
upon the breastplate two rings of gold, and shalt put the two rings
on the two ends of the breastplate.

24 And thou shalt put the
two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings which are on the ends of
the breastplate.

25 And the other two ends
of the two wreathen chains thou shalt fasten in the two ouches, and
put them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod before it.

26 And thou shalt make
two rings of gold, and thou shalt put them upon the two ends of the
breastplate in the border thereof, which is in the side of the ephod
inward.

27 And two other rings of
gold thou shalt make, and shalt put them on the two sides of the
ephod underneath, toward the forepart thereof, over against the other
coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod.

28 And they shall bind
the breastplate by the rings thereof unto the rings of the ephod with
a lace of blue, that it may be above the curious girdle of the ephod,
and that the breastplate be not loosed from the ephod.

29 And Aaron shall bear
the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment
upon his heart, when he goeth in unto the holy place for a memorial
before the Lord continually.

30 And thou shalt put in
the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall
be upon Aaron's heart, when he goeth in before the Lord; and Aaron
shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart
before the Lord continually.

31 And thou shalt make
the robe of the ephod all of blue.

32 And there shall be a
hole in the top of it, in the midst thereof; it shall have a binding
of woven work round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of an
habergeon, that it be not rent.

33 And beneath upon the
hem of it thou shalt make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of
scarlet, round about the hem thereof; and bells of gold between them
round about;

34 A golden bell and a
pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the hem of the
robe round about.

35 And it shall be upon
Aaron to minister; and his sound shall be heard when he goeth in unto
the holy place before the Lord, and when he cometh out, that he die
not.

36 And thou shalt make a
plate of pure gold, and grave upon it, like the engravings of a
signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.

37 And thou shalt put it
on a blue lace, that it may be upon the mitre; upon the forefront of
the mitre it shall be.

38 And it shall be upon
Aaron's forehead, that Aaron may bear the iniquity of the holy
things, which the children of Israel shall hallow in all their holy
gifts; and it shall be always upon his forehead, that they may be
accepted before the Lord.

39 And thou shalt
embroider the coat of fine linen, and thou shalt make the mitre of
fine linen, and thou shalt make the girdle of needle-work.

40 And for Aaron's sons
thou shalt make coats, and thou shalt make for them girdles, and
bonnets shalt thou make for them, for glory and for beauty.

41 And thou shalt put
them upon Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him; and shalt anoint
them, and consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister
unto me in the priest's office.

42 And thou shalt make
them linen breeches to cover their nakedness; from the loins even
unto the thighs they shall reach;

43 And they shall be upon
Aaron, and upon his sons, when they come in unto the tabernacle of
the congregation, or when they come near unto the altar to minister
in the holy place; that they bear not iniquity, and die; it shall be
a statute forever unto him and his seed after him.

EXODUS 29

1 And this is the thing
that thou shalt do unto them to hallow them, to minister unto me in
the priest's office; Take one young bullock, and two rams without
blemish,

2 And unleavened bread,
and cakes unleavened tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened
anointed with oil; of wheaten flour shalt thou make them.

3 And thou shalt put them
into one basket, and bring them in the basket, with the bullock and
the two rams.

4 And Aaron and his sons
thou shalt bring unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,
and shalt wash them with water.

5 And thou shalt take the
garments, and put upon Aaron the coat, and the robe of the ephod, and
the ephod, and the breastplate, and gird him with the curious girdle
of the ephod;

6 And thou shalt put the
mitre upon his head, and put the holy crown upon the mitre.

7 Then shalt thou take
the anointing oil, and pour it upon his head, and anoint him.

8 And thou shalt bring
his sons, and put coats upon them.

9 And thou shalt gird
them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them;
and the priest's office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute; and
thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons.

10 And thou shalt cause a
bullock to be brought before the tabernacle of the congregation; and
Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the
bullock.

11 And thou shalt kill
the bullock before the Lord, by the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation.

12 And thou shalt take of
the blood of the bullock, and put it upon the horns of the altar with
thy finger, and pour all the blood beside the bottom of the altar.

13 And thou shalt take
all the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul that is above the
liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and burn
them upon the altar.

14 But the flesh of the
bullock, and his skin, and his dung, shalt thou burn with fire
without the camp; it is a sin offering.

15 Thou shalt also take
one ram; and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head
of the ram.

16 And thou shalt slay
the ram, and thou shalt take his blood, and sprinkle it round about
upon the altar.

17 And thou shalt cut the
ram in pieces, and wash the inwards of him, and his legs, and put
them unto his pieces, and unto his head.

18 And thou shalt burn
the whole ram upon the altar; it is a burnt offering unto the Lord;
it is a sweet savor, an offering made by fire unto the Lord.

19 And thou shalt take
the other ram; and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the
head of the ram.

20 Then shalt thou kill
the ram, and take of his blood, and put it upon the tip of the right
ear of Aaron, and upon the tip of the right ear of his sons, and upon
the thumb of their right hand, and upon the great toe of their right
foot, and sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about.

21 And thou shalt take of
the blood that is upon the altar, and of the anointing oil, and
sprinkle it upon Aaron, and upon his garments, and upon his sons, and
upon the garments of his sons with him; and he shall be hallowed, and
his garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him.

22 Also thou shalt take
of the ram the fat and the rump, and the fat that covereth the
inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the
fat that is upon them, and the right shoulder; for it is a ram of
consecration;

23 And one loaf of bread,
and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, out of the basket of the
unleavened bread that is before the Lord;

24 And thou shalt put all
in the hands of Aaron, and in the hands of his sons; and shalt wave
them for a wave offering before the Lord.

25 And thou shalt receive
them of their hands, and burn them upon the altar for a burnt
offering, for a sweet savor before the Lord; it is an offering made
by fire unto the Lord.

26 And thou shalt take
the breast of the ram of Aaron's consecration, and wave it for a wave
offering before the Lord; and it shall be thy part.

27 And thou shalt
sanctify the breast of the wave offering, and the shoulder of the
heave offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of
the consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of that which
is for his sons;

28 And it shall be
Aaron's and his sons' by a statute forever from the children of
Israel; for it is a heave offering; and it shall be a heave offering
from the children of Israel of the sacrifice of their peace
offerings, even their heave offering unto the Lord.

29 And the holy garments
of Aaron shall be his sons' after him, to be anointed therein, and to
be consecrated in them.

30 And that son that is
priest in his stead shall put them on seven days, when he cometh into
the tabernacle of the congregation to minister in the holy place.

31 And thou shalt take
the ram of the consecration, and seethe his flesh in the holy place.

32 And Aaron and his sons
shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket,
by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

33 And they shall eat
those things wherewith the atonement was made; to consecrate and to
sanctify them; but a stranger shall not eat thereof, because they are
holy.

34 And if aught of the
flesh of the consecrations, or of the bread remain unto the morning,
then thou shalt burn the remainder with fire; it shall not be eaten,
because it is holy.

35 And thus shalt thou do
unto Aaron, and to his sons, according to all things which I have
commanded thee; seven days shalt thou consecrate them.

36 And thou shalt offer
every day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement; and thou shalt
cleanse the altar, when thou hast made an atonement for it, and thou
shalt anoint it, to sanctify it.

37 Seven days thou shalt
make an atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; and it shall be an
altar most holy; whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy.

38 Now this is that which
thou shalt offer upon the altar; two lambs of the first year day by
day continually.

39 The one lamb thou
shalt offer in the morning; and the other lamb thou shalt offer at
even;

40 And with the one lamb
a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of a hin of beaten
oil; and the fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink offering.

41 And the other lamb
thou shalt offer at even, and shalt do thereto according to the meat
offering of the morning, and according to the drink offering thereof,
for a sweet savor, an offering made by fire unto the Lord.

42 This shall be a
continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of
the tabernacle of the congregation before the Lord, where I will meet
you, to speak there unto thee.

43 And there I will meet
with the children of Israel, and the tabernacle shall be sanctified
by my glory.

44 And I will sanctify
the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar; I will sanctify
also both Aaron and his sons, to minister to me in the priest's
office.

45 And I will dwell among
the children of Israel, and will be their God.

46 And they shall know
that I am the Lord their God, that brought them forth out of the land
of Egypt, that I may dwell among them; I am the Lord their God.

EXODUS 30

1 And thou shalt make an
altar to burn incense upon; of shittim wood shalt thou make it.

2 A cubit shall be the
length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof; foursquare shall it
be; and two cubits shall be the height thereof; the horns thereof
shall be of the same.

3 And thou shalt overlay
it with pure gold, the top thereof, and the sides thereof round
about, and the horns thereof; and thou shalt make unto it a crown of
gold round about.

4 And two golden rings
shalt thou make to it under the crown of it, by the two corners
thereof, upon the two sides of it shalt thou make it; and they shall
be for places for the staves to bear it withal.

5 And thou shalt make the
staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold.

6 And thou shalt put it
before the veil that is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy
seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with thee.

7 And Aaron shall burn
thereon sweet incense every morning; when he dresseth the lamps, he
shall burn incense upon it.

8 And when Aaron lighteth
the lamps at even he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense
before the Lord throughout your generations.

10 And Aaron shall make
an atonement upon the horns of it once in a year with the blood of
the sin offering of atonements; once in the year shall he make
atonement upon it throughout your generations; it is most holy unto
the Lord.

11 And the Lord spake
unto Moses, saying,

12 When thou takest the
sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they
give every man a ransom for his soul unto the Lord, when thou
numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when thou
numberest them.

13 This they shall give,
every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel
after the shekel of the sanctuary; (a shekel is twenty gerahs;) a
half shekel shall be the offering of the Lord.

14 Every one that passeth
among them that are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall
give an offering unto the Lord.

15 The rich shall not
give more, and the poor shall not give less, than half a shekel, when
they give an offering unto the Lord, to make an atonement for your
souls.

16 And thou shalt take
the atonement money of the children of Israel, and shalt appoint it
for the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; that it may be
a memorial unto the children of Israel before the Lord, to make an
atonement for your souls.

17 And the Lord spake
unto Moses, saying,

18 Thou shalt also make a
laver of brass, and his foot also of brass, to wash withal; and thou
shalt put it between the tabernacle of the congregation and the
altar, and thou shalt put water therein.

19 For Aaron and his sons
shall wash their hands and their feet thereat;

20 When they go into the
tabernacle of the congregation, they shall wash with water, that they
die not; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn
offering made by fire unto the Lord;

21 So they shall wash
their hands and their feet, that they die not; and it shall be a
statute forever to them, even to him and to his seed throughout their
generations.

22 Moreover the Lord
spake unto Moses, saying,

23 Take thou also unto
thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred shekels, and of
sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty shekels, and
of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty shekels,

24 And of cassia five
hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of oil olive
a hin;

25 And thou shalt make it
an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compound after the art of the
apothecary; it shall be a holy anointing oil.

26 And thou shalt anoint
the tabernacle of the congregation therewith, and the ark of the
testimony,

27 And the table and all
his vessels, and the candlestick and his vessels, and the altar of
incense,

28 And the altar of burnt
offering with all his vessels, and the laver and his foot.

29 And thou shalt
sanctify them, that they may be most holy; whatsoever toucheth them
shall be holy.

30 And thou shalt anoint
Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them that they may minister unto
me in the priest's office.

31 And thou shalt speak
unto the children of Israel, saying, This shall be a holy anointing
oil unto me throughout your generations.

32 Upon man's flesh shall
it not be poured, neither shall ye make any other like it, after the
composition of it; it is holy, and it shall be holy unto you.

33 Whosoever compoundeth
any like it, or whosoever putteth any of it upon a stranger, shall
even be cut off from his people.

34 And the Lord said unto
Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum;
these sweet spices with pure frankincense; of each shall there be a
like weight;

35 And thou shalt make it
a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered
together, pure and holy;

36 And thou shalt beat
some of it very small, and put of it before the testimony in the
tabernacle of the congregation, where I will meet with thee; it shall
be unto you most holy.

37 And as for the perfume
which thou shalt make, ye shall not make to yourselves according to
the composition thereof; it shall be unto thee holy for the Lord.

38 Whosoever shall make
like unto that, to smell thereto, shall even be cut off from his
people.

EXODUS 31

1 And the Lord spake unto
Moses saying,

2 See, I have called by
name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah;

3 And I have filled him
with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in
knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship.

4 To devise cunning
works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,

5 And in cutting of
stones, to set them, and in carving of timber, to work in all manner
of workmanship.

6 And I, behold, I have
given with him Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan;
and in the hearts of all that are wisehearted I have put wisdom, that
they may make all that I have commanded thee;

7 The tabernacle of the
congregation, and the ark of the testimony, and the mercy seat that
is thereupon, and all the furniture of the tabernacle,

8 And the table and his
furniture, and the pure candlestick with all his furniture, and the
altar of incense,

9 And the altar of burnt
offering with all his furniture, and the laver and his foot,

10 And the clothes of
service, and the holy garments of Aaron the priest, and the garments
of his sons, to minister in the priest's office,

11 And the anointing oil,
and sweet incense for the holy place; according to all that I have
commanded thee shall they do.

12 And the Lord spake
unto Moses, saying,

13 Speak thou also unto
the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep; for
it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye
may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you.

14 Ye shall keep the
sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you. Every one that defileth
it shall surely be put to death; for whosoever doeth any work
therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

15 Six days may work be
done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the Lord;
whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put
to death.

16 Wherefore the children
of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout
their generations, for a perpetual covenant.

17 It is a sign between
me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days the Lord made
heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was
refreshed.

18 And he gave unto
Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount
Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the
finger of God.

EXODUS
32

1 And when the people saw
that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered
themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods,
which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought
us up out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him.

2 And Aaron said unto
them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your
wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me.

3 And all the people
brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought
them unto Aaron.

4 And he received them at
their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made
it a molten calf; and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which
brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

5 And when Aaron saw it,
he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said,
Tomorrow is a feast to the Lord.

6 And they rose up early
on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace
offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up
to play.

7 And the Lord said unto
Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out
of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves;

8 They have turned aside
quickly out of the way which I commanded them, they have made them a
molten calf, and have worshiped it, and have sacrificed thereunto,
and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out
of the land of Egypt.

9 And the Lord said unto
Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiff-necked
people;

10 Now therefore let me
alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume
them; and I will make of thee a great nation.

11 And Moses besought the
Lord his God, and said, Lord, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy
people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with
great power, and with a mighty hand?

12 Wherefore should the
Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay
them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the
earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath. Thy people will repent of this
evil; therefore come thou not out against them.

13 Remember Abraham,
Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own
self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of
heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your
seed, and they shall inherit it forever.

14 And the Lord said unto
Moses, If they will repent of the evil which they have done, I will
spare them, and turn away my fierce wrath; but, behold, thou shalt
execute judgment upon all that will not repent of this evil this day.
Therefore, see thou do this thing that I have commanded thee, or I
will execute all that which I had thought to do unto my people.

15 And Moses turned, and
went down from the mount, and the two tables of the testimony were in
his hand; the tables were written on both their sides; on the one
side and on the other were they written.

16 And the tables were
the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon
the tables.

17 And when Joshua heard
the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses, There is
a noise of war in the camp.

18 And he said, It is not
the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of
them that cry for being overcome; but the noise of them that sing do
I hear.

19 And it came to pass,
as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the
dancing; and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of
his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.

20 And he took the calf
which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to
powder, and strewed it upon the water, and made the children of
Israel drink of it.

21 And Moses said unto
Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought so
great a sin upon them?

22 And Aaron said, Let
not the anger of my lord wax hot; thou knowest the people, that they
are set on mischief.

23 For they said unto me,
Make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the
man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is
become of him.

24 And I said unto them,
Whosoever hath any gold, let them break it off. So they gave it me;
then I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf.

25 And when Moses saw
that the people were naked, (for Aaron had made them naked unto their
shame among their enemies,)

26 Then Moses stood in
the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the Lord's side? let him
come unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together
unto him.

27 And he said unto them,
Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his
side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and
slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every
man his neighbor.

28 And the children of
Levi did according to the word of Moses; and there fell of the people
that day about three thousand men.

29 For Moses had said,
Consecrate yourselves today to the Lord, even every man upon his son,
and upon his brother; that he may bestow upon you a blessing this
day.

30 And it came to pass on
the morrow, that Moses said unto the people, Ye have sinned a great
sin; and now I will go up unto the Lord; peradventure I shall make an
atonement for your sin.

31 And Moses returned
unto the Lord, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and
have made them gods of gold.

32 Yet now, if thou wilt
forgive their sin-; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book
which thou hast written.

33 And the Lord said unto
Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my
book.

34 Therefore now go, lead
the people unto the place of which I have spoken unto thee; behold,
mine Angel shall go before thee; nevertheless, in the day when I
visit, I will visit their sin upon them.

35 And the Lord plagued
the people because they worshiped the calf, which Aaron made.

EXODUS 33

1 And the Lord said unto
Moses, Depart, and go up hence, thou and the people which thou hast
brought up out of the land of Egypt, unto a land flowing with milk
and honey, the land which I sware unto Abraham, to Isaac, and to
Jacob, saying, Unto thy seed will I give it;

2 And I will send an
Angel before thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite,
and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite;

3 Unto a land flowing
with milk and honey; for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for
thou art a stiff-necked people; lest I consume thee in the way.

4 And when the people
heard these evil tidings, they mourned; and no man did put on him his
ornaments.

5 For the Lord had said
unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, Ye are a stiff-necked
people; I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and
consume thee; therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I
may know what to do unto thee.

6 And the children of
Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments by the mount Horeb.

7 And Moses took the
tabernacle, and pitched it without the camp, afar off from the camp,
and called it the Tabernacle of the congregation. And it came to
pass, that every one which sought the Lord went out unto the
tabernacle of the congregation, which was without the camp.

8 And it came to pass,
when Moses went out unto the tabernacle, that all the people rose up,
and stood every man at his tent door, and looked after Moses, until
he was gone into the tabernacle.

9 And it came to pass, as
Moses entered into the tabernacle, the cloudy pillar descended, and
stood at the door of the tabernacle, and the Lord talked with Moses.

10 And all the people saw
the cloudy pillar stand at the tabernacle door; and all the people
rose up and worshiped, every man in his tent door.

11 And the Lord spake
unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he
turned again into the camp; but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a
young man, departed not out of the tabernacle.

13 Now therefore, I pray
thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, show me now thy way, that I
may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight; and consider that
this nation is thy people.

14 And he said, My
presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.

15 And he said unto him,
If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence.

16 For wherein shall it
be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? is
it not in that thou goest with us? So shall we be separated, I and
thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.

17 And the Lord said unto
Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken; for thou hast
found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name.

18 And he said, I beseech
thee, show me thy glory.

19 And he said, I will
make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name
of the Lord before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be
gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.

20 And he said unto
Moses, Thou canst not see my face at this time, lest mine anger be
kindled against thee also, and I destroy thee, and thy people; for
there shall no man among them see me at this time, and live, for they
are exceeding sinful. And no sinful man hath at any time, neither
shall there be any sinful man at any time, that shall see my face and
live.

21 And the Lord said,
Behold, thou shalt stand upon a rock, and I will prepare a place by
me for thee.

22 And it shall come to
pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a cleft of a
rock, and cover thee with my hand while I pass by.

23 And I will take away
mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts, but my face shall not be
seen, as at other times; for I am angry with my people Israel.

EXODUS
34

1 And the Lord said unto
Moses, Hew thee two other tables of stone, like unto the first, and I
will write upon them also, the words of the law, according as they
were written at the first on the tables which thou brakest; but it
shall not be according to the first, for I will take away the
priesthood out of their midst; therefore my holy order, and the
ordinances thereof, shall not go before them; for my presence shall
not go up in their midst, lest I destroy them.

2 But I will give unto
them the law as at the first, but it shall be after the law of a
carnal commandment; for I have sworn in my wrath, that they shall not
enter into my presence, into my rest, in the days of their
pilgrimage. Therefore do as I have commanded thee, and be ready in
the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present
thyself there to me, in the top of the mount.

3 And no man shall come
up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount;
neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount.

4 And Moses hewed two
tables of stone like unto the first; and he rose up early in the
morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him,
and took in his hand the two tables of stone.

5 And the Lord descended
in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of
the Lord.

6 And the Lord passed by
before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and
gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,

7 Keeping mercy for
thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that
will by no means clear the rebellious; visiting the iniquity of the
fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the
third and to the fourth generation.

8 And Moses made haste,
and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped.

9 And he said, If now I
have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go
among us; for it is a stiff-necked people; and pardon our iniquity
and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.

10 And he said, Behold, I
make a covenant; before all thy people I will do marvels, such as
have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the
people among which thou art shall see the work of the Lord; for it is
a terrible thing that I will do with thee.

11 Observe thou that
which I command thee this day; behold, I drive out before thee the
Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and
the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

12 Take heed to thyself,
lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither
thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee;

13 But ye shall destroy
their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves;

14 For thou shalt worship
no other god; for the Lord, whose name is Jehovah, is a jealous God.

15 Lest thou make a
covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring
after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call
thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;

16 And thou take of their
daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their
gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.

17 Thou shalt make thee
no molten gods.

18 The feast of
unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat
unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib;
for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.

19 All that openeth the
matrix is mine; and every firstling among thy cattle, whether ox or
sheep, that is male.

20 But the firstling of
an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou redeem him not,
then shalt thou break his neck. All the firstborn of thy sons thou
shalt redeem. And none shall appear before me empty.

21 Six days thou shalt
work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest; in earing time and in
harvest thou shalt rest.

22 And thou shalt observe
the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the
feast of ingathering at the year's end.

23 Thrice in the year
shall all your men children appear before the Lord God, the God of
Israel.

24 For I will cast out
the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders; neither shall any
man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the Lord
thy God thrice in the year.

25 Thou shalt not offer
the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of
the feast of the passover be left unto the morning.

26 The first of the
firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the Lord
thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

27 And the Lord said unto
Moses, Write thou these words; for after the tenor of these words I
have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.

28 And he was there with
the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor
drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant,
the ten commandments.

29 And it came to pass,
when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of
testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount, that
Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with
him.

30 And when Aaron and all
the children of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone;
and they were afraid to come nigh him.

31 And Moses called unto
them; and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned unto
him; and Moses talked with them.

32 And afterward all the
children of Israel came nigh; and he gave them in commandment all
that the Lord had spoken with him in mount Sinai.

33 And till Moses had
done speaking with them, he put a veil on his face.

34 But when Moses went in
before the Lord to speak with him, he took the veil off, until he
came out. And he came out, and spake unto the children of Israel that
which he was commanded.

35 And the children of
Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone; and
Moses put the veil upon his face again, until he went in to speak
with the Lord.

EXODUS 35

1 And Moses gathered all
the congregation of the children of Israel together, and said unto
them, These are the words which the Lord hath commanded, that ye
should do them.

2 Six days shall work be
done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you a holy day, a
sabbath of rest to the Lord; whosoever doeth work therein shall be
put to death.

3 Ye shall kindle no fire
throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.

4 And Moses spake unto
all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, This is the
thing which the Lord commanded, saying,

5 Take ye from among you
an offering unto the Lord; whosoever is of a willing heart, let him
bring it, an offering of the Lord; gold, and silver, and brass,

6 And blue, and purple,
and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair,

7 And rams' skins dyed
red, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood,

8 And oil for the light,
and spices for anointing oil, and for the sweet incense,

9 And onyx stones, and
stones to be set for the ephod, and for the breastplate.

10 And every wisehearted
among you shall come, and make all that the Lord hath commanded;

11 The tabernacle, his
tent, and his covering, his taches, and his boards, his bars, his
pillars, and his sockets;

12 The ark, and the
staves thereof, with the mercy seat, and the veil of the covering;

13 The table, and his
staves, and all his vessels, and the showbread;

14 The candlestick also
for the light, and his furniture, and his lamps, with the oil for the
light;

15 And the incense altar,
and his staves, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the
hanging for the door at the entering in of the tabernacle;

16 The altar of burnt
offering, with his brazen grate, his staves, and all his vessels, the
laver and his foot;

17 The hangings of the
court, his pillars, and their sockets, and the hanging for the door
of the court;

18 The pins of the
tabernacle, and the pins of the court, and their cords;

19 The clothes of
service, to do service in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron
the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's
office.

20 And all the
congregation of the children of Israel departed from the presence of
Moses.

21 And they came, every
one whose heart stirred him up, and every one whom his spirit made
willing, and they brought the Lord's offering to the work of the
tabernacle of the congregation, and for all his service, and for the
holy garments.

22 And they came, both
men and women, as many as were willing-hearted, and brought
bracelets, and earrings, and rings, and tablets, all jewels of gold;
and every man that offered, offered an offering of gold unto the
Lord.

23 And every man, with
whom was found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and
goats' hair, and red skins of rams, and badgers' skins, brought them.

24 Every one that did
offer an offering of silver and brass brought the Lord's offering;
and every man, with whom was found shittim wood for any work of the
service, brought it.

25 And all the women that
were wisehearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which
they had spun, both of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of
fine linen.

26 And all the women
whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun goats' hair.

27 And the rulers brought
onyx stones, and stones to be set, for the ephod, and for the
breastplate;

28 And spice, and oil for
the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense.

29 The children of Israel
brought a willing offering unto the Lord, every man and woman, whose
heart made them willing to bring for all manner of work, which the
Lord had commanded to be made by the hand of Moses.

30 And Moses said unto
the children of Israel, See, the Lord hath called by name Bezaleel
the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah;

31 And he hath filled him
with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in
knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship;

32 And to devise curious
works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,

33 And in the cutting of
stones, to set them, and in carving of wood, to make any manner of
cunning work.

34 And he hath put in his
heart that he may teach, both he, and Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach,
of the tribe of Dan.

35 Them hath he filled
with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver,
and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in
purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of
them that do any work, and of those that devise cunning work.

EXODUS 36

1 Then wrought Bezaleel
and Aholiab, and every wisehearted man, in whom the Lord put wisdom
and understanding to know how to work all manner of work for the
service of the sanctuary, according to all that the Lord had
commanded.

2 And Moses called
Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wisehearted man, in whose heart the
Lord had put wisdom, even every one whose heart stirred him up to
come unto the work to do it;

3 And they received of
Moses all the offering, which the children of Israel had brought for
the work of the service of the sanctuary, to make it withal. And they
brought yet unto him free offerings every morning.

4 And all the wise men,
that wrought all the work of the sanctuary, came every man from his
work which they made;

5 And they spake unto
Moses, saying, The people bring much more than enough for the service
of the work, which the Lord commanded to make.

6 And Moses gave
commandment, and they caused it to be proclaimed throughout the camp
saying, Let neither man nor woman make any more work for the offering
of the sanctuary. So the people were restrained from bringing.

7 For the stuff they had
was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much.

8 And every wisehearted
man among them that wrought the work of the tabernacle made ten
curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet;
with cherubim of cunning work made he them.

9 The length of one
curtain was twenty and eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain
four cubits; the curtains were all of one size.

10 And he coupled the
five curtains one unto another; and the other five curtains he
coupled one unto another.

11 And he made loops of
blue on the edge of one curtain from the selvage in the coupling;
likewise he made in the uttermost side of another curtain, in the
coupling of the second.

12 Fifty loops made he in
one curtain, and fifty loops made he in the edge of the curtain which
was in the coupling of the second; the loops held one curtain to
another.

13 And he made fifty
taches of gold, and coupled the curtains one unto another with the
taches; so it became one tabernacle.

14 And he made curtains
of goats' hair for the tent over the tabernacle; eleven curtains he
made them.

15 The length of one
curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits was the breadth of one
curtain; the eleven curtains were of one size.

16 And he coupled five
curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.

17 And he made fifty
loops upon the uttermost edge of the curtain in the coupling, and
fifty loops made he upon the edge of the curtain which coupleth the
second.

18 And he made fifty
taches of brass to couple the tent together, that it might be one.

19 And he made a covering
for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of badgers'
skins above that.

20 And he made boards for
the tabernacle of shittim wood, standing up.

21 The length of a board
was ten cubits, and the breadth of a board one cubit and a half.

22 One board had two
tenons equally distant one from another; thus did he make for all the
boards of the tabernacle.

23 And he made boards for
the tabernacle; twenty boards for the south side southward;

24 And forty sockets of
silver he made under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board
for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two
tenons.

25 And for the other side
of the tabernacle, which is toward the north corner, he made twenty
boards,

26 And their forty
sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under
another board.

27 And for the sides of
the tabernacle westward he made six boards.

28 And two boards made he
for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides.

29 And they were coupled
beneath, and coupled together at the head thereof, to one ring; thus
he did to both of them in both the corners.

30 And there were eight
boards; and their sockets were sixteen sockets of silver, under every
board two sockets.

31 And he made bars of
shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,

32 And five bars for the
boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the
boards of the tabernacle, for the sides westward.

33 And he made the middle
bar to shoot through the boards from the one end to the other.

34 And he overlaid the
boards with gold, and made their rings of gold to be places for the
bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.

35 And he made a veil of
blue, and purple and scarlet, and fine twined linen; with cherubim
made he it of cunning work.

36 And he made thereunto
four pillars of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold; their
hooks were of gold; and he cast for them four sockets of silver.

37 And he made a hanging
for the tabernacle door of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine
twined linen, of needlework;

38 And the five pillars
of it with their hooks; and he overlaid their chapiters and their
fillets with gold; but their five sockets were of brass.

EXODUS 37

1 And Bezaleel made the
ark of shittim wood; two cubits and a half was the length of it, and
a cubit and a half the breadth of it, and a cubit and a half the
height of it;

2 And he overlaid it with
pure gold within and without, and made a crown of gold to it round
about.

3 And he cast for it four
rings of gold, to be set by the four corners of it; even two rings
upon the one side of it, and two rings upon the other side of it.

4 And he made staves of
shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold.

5 And he put the staves
into the rings by the sides of the ark, to bear the ark.

6 And he made the mercy
seat of pure gold; two cubits and a half was the length thereof, and
one cubit and a half the breadth thereof.

7 And he made two
cherubim of gold, beaten out of one piece made he them, on the two
ends of the mercy seat;

8 One cherub on the end
on this side, and another cherub on the other end on that side; out
of the mercy seat made he the cherubim on the two ends thereof.

9 And the cherubim spread
out their wings on high, and covered with their wings over the mercy
seat, with their faces one to another; even to the mercy seatward
were the faces of the cherubim.

10 And he made the table
of shittim wood; two cubits was the length thereof, and a cubit the
breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof;

11 And he overlaid it
with pure gold, and made thereunto a crown of gold round about.

12 Also he made thereunto
a border of a handbreadth round about; and made a crown of gold for
the border thereof round about.

13 And he cast for it
four rings of gold, and put the rings upon the four corners that were
in the four feet thereof.

14 Over against the
border were the rings, the places for the staves to bear the table.

15 And he made the staves
of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold, to bear the table.

16 And he made the
vessels which were upon the table, his dishes, and his spoons, and
his bowls, and his covers to cover withal, of pure gold.

17 And he made the
candlestick of pure gold; of beaten work made he the candlestick; his
shaft, and his branch, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, were of
the same;

18 And six branches going
out of the sides thereof; three branches of the candlestick out of
the one side thereof, and three branches of the candlestick out of
the other side thereof;

19 Three bowls made after
the fashion of almonds in one branch, a knop and a flower; and three
bowls made like almonds in another branch, a knop and a flower; so
throughout the six branches going out of the candlestick.

20 And in the candlestick
were four bowls made like almonds, his knops, and his flowers;

21 And a knop under two
branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, and
a knop under two branches of the same, according to the six branches
going out of it.

22 Their knops and their
branches were of the same; all of it was one beaten work of pure
gold.

23 And he made his seven
lamps, and his snuffers, and his snuffdishes, of pure gold.

24 Of a talent of pure
gold made he it, and all the vessels thereof.

25 And he made the
incense altar of shittim wood; the length of it was a cubit; and the
breadth of it a cubit; it was foursquare; and two cubits was the
height of it; the horns thereof were of the same.

26 And he overlaid it
with pure gold, both the top of it, and the sides thereof round
about, and the horns of it; also he made unto it a crown of gold
round about.

27 And he made two rings
of gold for it under the crown thereof, by the two corners of it,
upon the two sides thereof, to be places for the staves to bear it
withal.

28 And he made the staves
of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold.

29 And he made the holy
anointing oil, and the pure incense of sweet spices, according to the
work of the apothecary.

EXODUS 38

1 And he made the altar
of burnt offering of shittim wood; five cubits was the length
thereof, and five cubits the breadth thereof; it was foursquare; and
three cubits the height thereof.

2 And he made the horns
thereof on the four corners of it; the horns thereof were of the
same; and he overlaid it with brass.

3 And he made all the
vessels of the altar, the pots, and the shovels, and the basins, and
the fleshhooks, and the firepans; all the vessels thereof made he of
brass.

4 And he made for the
altar a brazen grate of network, under the compass thereof, beneath
unto the midst of it.

5 And he cast four rings
for the four ends of the grate of brass, to be places for the staves.

6 And he made the staves
of shittim wood, and overlaid them with brass.

7 And he put the staves
into the rings on the sides of the altar, to bear it withal; he made
the altar hollow with boards.

8 And he made the laver
of brass, and the foot of it of brass, of the looking glasses of the
women assembling, which assembled at the door of the tabernacle of
the congregation.

9 And he made the court;
on the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine
twined linen, a hundred cubits;

10 Their pillars were
twenty, and their brazen sockets twenty; the hooks of the pillars and
their fillets were of silver.

11 And for the north side
the hangings were a hundred cubits, their pillars were twenty, and
their sockets of brass twenty; the hooks of the pillars, and their
fillets of silver.

12 And for the west side
were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets
ten; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.

13 And for the east side
eastward fifty cubits.

14 The hangings of the
one side of the gate were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and
their sockets three.

15 And for the other side
of the court gate, on this hand and that hand, were hangings of
fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.

16 All the hangings of
the court round about were of fine twined linen.

17 And the sockets for
the pillars were of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets
of silver; and the overlaying of their chapiters of silver; and all
the pillars of the court were filleted with silver.

18 And the hanging for
the gate of the court was needlework, of blue, and purple, and
scarlet, and fine twined linen; and twenty cubits was the length, and
the height in the breadth was five cubits, answerable to the hangings
of the court.

19 And their pillars were
four, and their sockets of brass four; their hooks of silver, and the
overlaying of their chapiters and their fillets of silver.

20 And all the pins of
the tabernacle, and of the court round about, were of brass.

21 This is the sum of the
tabernacle, even of the tabernacle of testimony, as it was counted,
according to the commandment of Moses, for the service of the
Levites, by the hand of Ithamar, son to Aaron the priest.

22 And Bezaleel the son
of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that the Lord
commanded Moses.

23 And with him was
Aholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a
cunning workman, and an embroiderer in blue, and in purple, and in
scarlet, and fine linen.

24 All the gold that was
occupied for the work in all the work of the holy place, even the
gold of the offering, was twenty and nine talents, and seven hundred
and thirty shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary.

25 And the silver of them
that were numbered of the congregation was a hundred talents, and a
thousand seven hundred and threescore and fifteen shekels, after the
shekel of the sanctuary;

26 A bekah for every man,
that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every
one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for
six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty
men.

27 And of the hundred
talents of silver were cast the sockets of the sanctuary, and the
sockets of the veil; a hundred sockets of the hundred talents, a
talent for a socket.

28 And of the thousand
seven hundred seventy and five shekels he made hooks for the pillars,
and overlaid their chapiters, and filleted them.

29 And the brass of the
offering was seventy talents, and two thousand and four hundred
shekels.

30 And therewith he made
the sockets to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and
the brazen altar, and the brazen grate for it, and all the vessels of
the altar,

31 And the sockets of the
court round about, and the sockets of the court gate, and all the
pins of the tabernacle, and all the pins of the court round about.

EXODUS 39

1 And of the blue, and
purple, and scarlet, they made clothes of service, to do service in
the holy place, and made the holy garments for Aaron; as the Lord
commanded Moses.

2 And he made the ephod
of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.

3 And they did beat the
gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue,
and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, with
cunning work.

4 They made shoulder
pieces for it, to couple it together; by the two edges was it coupled
together.

5 And the curious girdle
of his ephod, that was upon it, was of the same, according to the
work thereof; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined
linen; as the Lord commanded Moses.

6 And they wrought onyx
stones enclosed in ouches of gold, graven, as signets are graven,
with the names of the children of Israel.

7 And he put them on the
shoulders of the ephod, that they should be stones for a memorial to
the children of Israel; as the Lord commanded Moses.

8 And he made the breast
plate of cunning work, like the work of the ephod; of gold, blue, and
purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.

9 It was foursquare; they
made the breastplate double; a span was the length thereof, and a
span the breadth thereof, being doubled.

10 And they set in it
four rows of stones; the first row was a sardius, a topaz, and a
carbuncle; this was the first row.

11 And the second row, an
emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond.

12 And the third row, a
ligure, and agate, and an amethyst.

13 And the fourth row, a
beryl, and onyx, and a jasper; they were enclosed in ouches of gold
in their enclosings.

14 And the stones were
according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according
to their names, like the engravings of a signet, every one with his
name, according to the twelve tribes.

15 And they made upon the
breastplate chains at the ends, of wreathen work of pure gold.

16 And they made two
ouches of gold, and two gold rings, and put the two rings in the two
ends of the breastplate.

17 And they put the two
wreathen chains of gold in the two rings on the ends of the
breastplate.

18 And the two ends of
the two wreathen chains they fastened in the two ouches, and put them
on the shoulderpieces of the ephod, before it.

19 And they made two
rings of gold, and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, upon
the border of it, which was on the side of the ephod inward.

20 And they made two
other golden rings, and put them on the two sides of the ephod
underneath, toward the forepart of it, over against the other
coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod.

21 And they did bind the
breastplate by his rings unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of
blue, that it might be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and
that the breastplate might not be loosed from the ephod; as the Lord
commanded Moses.

22 And he made the robe
of the ephod of woven work, all of blue.

23 And there was a hole
in the midst of the robe, as the hole of an habergeon, with a band
round about the hole, that it should not rend.

24 And they made upon the
hems of the robe pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and
twined linen.

25 And they made bells of
pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates upon the hem of
the robe, round about between the pomegranates;

26 A bell and a
pomegranate, a bell and a pomegranate, round about the hem of the
robe to minister in; as the Lord commanded Moses.

27 And they made coats of
fine linen of woven work for Aaron, and for his sons,

28 And a mitre of fine
linen, and goodly bonnets of fine linen, and linen breeches of fine
twined linen,

29 And a girdle of fine
twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, of needlework; as
the Lord commanded Moses.

30 And they made the
plate of the holy crown of pure gold, and wrote upon it a writing,
like to the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD.

31 And they tied unto it
a lace of blue, to fasten it on high upon the mitre; as the Lord
commanded Moses.

32 Thus was all the work
of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation finished; and the
children of Israel did according to all that the Lord commanded
Moses, so did they.

33 And they brought the
tabernacle unto Moses, the tent, and all his furniture, his taches,
his boards, his bars, and his pillars, and his sockets;

34 And the covering of
rams' skins dyed red, and the covering of badgers' skins, and the
veil of the covering;

35 The ark of the
testimony, and the staves thereof, and the mercy seat;

36 The table, and all the
vessels thereof, and the showbread;

37 The pure candlestick,
with the lamps thereof, even with the lamps to be set in order, and
all the vessels thereof, and the oil for light;

38 And the golden altar,
and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the
tabernacle door;

39 The brazen altar, and
his grate of brass, his staves, and all his vessels, the laver and
his foot;

40 The hangings of the
court, his pillars, and his sockets, and the hanging for the court
gate, his cords, and his pins, and all the vessels of the service of
the tabernacle, for the tent of the congregation;

41 The clothes of service
to do service in the holy place, and the holy garments for Aaron the
priest, and his sons' garments, to minister in the priest's office.

42 According to all that
the Lord commanded Moses, so the children of Israel made all the
work.

43 And Moses did look
upon all the work, and, behold, they had done it as the Lord had
commanded, even so had they done it; and Moses blessed them.

EXODUS
40

1 And the Lord spake unto
Moses, saying,

2 On the first day of the
first month shalt thou set up the tabernacle of the tent of the
congregation.

3 And thou shalt put
therein the ark of the testimony, and cover the ark with the veil.

4 And thou shalt bring in
the table, and set in order the things that are to be set in order
upon it; and thou shalt bring in the candlestick, and light the lamps
thereof.

5 And thou shalt set the
altar of gold for the incense before the ark of the testimony, and
put the hanging of the door to the tabernacle.

6 And thou shalt set the
altar of the burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the
tent of the congregation.

7 And thou shalt set the
laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar, and shalt
put water therein.

8 And thou shalt set up
the court round about, and hang up the hanging at the court gate.

9 And thou shalt take the
anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle, and all that is therein,
and shalt hallow it, and all the vessels thereof; and it shall be
holy.

10 And thou shalt anoint
the altar of the burnt offering, and all his vessels, and sanctify
the altar; and it shall be an altar most holy.

11 And thou shalt anoint
the laver and his foot, and sanctify it.

12 And thou shalt bring
Aaron and his sons unto the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation, and wash them with water.

13 And thou shalt put
upon Aaron the holy garments, and anoint him, and sanctify him; that
he may minister unto me in the priest's office.

14 And thou shalt bring
his sons, and clothe them with coats;

15 And thou shalt anoint
them, as thou didst anoint their father, that they may minister unto
me in the priest's office, for their anointing shall surely be an
everlasting priesthood throughout their generations.

16 Thus did Moses;
according to all that the Lord commanded him, so did he.

17 And it came to pass in
the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month,
that the tabernacle was reared up.

18 And Moses reared up
the tabernacle, and fastened his sockets, and set up the boards
thereof, and put in the bars thereof, and reared up his pillars.

19 And he spread abroad
the tent over the tabernacle, and put the covering of the tent above
upon it; as the Lord commanded Moses.

20 And he took and put
the testimony into the ark, and set the staves on the ark, and put
the mercy seat above upon the ark;

21 And he brought the ark
into the tabernacle, and set up the veil of the covering, and covered
the ark of the testimony; as the Lord commanded Moses.

22 And he put the table
in the tent of the congregation, upon the side of the tabernacle
northward, without the veil.

23 And he set the bread
in order upon it before the Lord; as the Lord had commanded Moses.

24 And he put the
candlestick in the tent of the congregation, over against the table,
on the side of the tabernacle southward.

25 And he lighted the
lamps before the Lord; as the Lord commanded Moses.

26 And he put the golden
altar in the tent of the congregation before the veil;

27 And he burnt sweet
incense thereon; as the Lord commanded Moses.

28 And he set up the
hanging at the door of the tabernacle.

29 And he put the altar
of burnt offering by the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the
congregation, and offered upon it the burnt offering and the meat
offering; as the Lord commanded Moses.

30 And he set the laver
between the tent of the congregation and the altar, and put water
there, to wash withal.

31 And Moses and Aaron
and his sons washed their hands and their feet thereat;

32 When they went into
the tent of the congregation, and when they came near unto the altar,
they washed; as the Lord commanded Moses.

33 And he reared up the
court round about the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the
hanging of the court gate. So Moses finished the work.

34 Then a cloud covered
the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the Lord filled the
tabernacle.

35 And Moses was not able
to enter into the tent of the congregation, because the cloud abode
thereon, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.

36 And when the cloud was
taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward
in all their journeys;

37 But if the cloud were
not taken up, then they journeyed not till the day that it was taken
up.

38 For the cloud of the
Lord was upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in
the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.

1 And the Lord called
unto Moses, and spake unto him out of the tabernacle of the
congregation, saying,

2 Speak unto the children
of Israel, and say unto them, If any man of you bring an offering
unto the Lord, ye shall bring your offering of the cattle, even of
the herd, and of the flock.

3 If his offering be a
burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish; he
shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation before the Lord.

4 And he shall put his
hand upon the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be accepted
for him to make atonement for him.

5 And he shall kill the
bullock before the Lord; and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall bring
the blood, and sprinkle the blood round about upon the altar that is
by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

6 And he shall flay the
burnt offering, and cut it into his pieces.

7 And the sons of Aaron
the priest shall put fire upon the altar, and lay the wood in order
upon the fire;

8 And the priests,
Aaron's sons, shall lay the parts, the head, and the fat, in order
upon the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar;

9 But his inwards and his
legs shall he wash in water; and the priest shall burn all on the
altar, to be a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet
savor unto the Lord.

10 And if his offering be
of the flocks, namely of the sheep, or of the goats, for a burnt
sacrifice; he shall bring it a male without blemish.

11 And he shall kill it
on the side of the altar northward before the Lord; and the priests,
Aaron's sons, shall sprinkle his blood round about upon the altar;

12 And he shall cut it
into his pieces, with his head and his fat; and the priest shall lay
them in order on the wood that is on the fire which is upon the
altar.

13 But he shall wash the
inwards and the legs with water; and the priest shall bring it all,
and burn it upon the altar; it is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made
by fire, of a sweet savor unto the Lord.

14 And if the burnt
sacrifice for his offering to the Lord be of fowls, then he shall
bring his offering of turtle doves, or of young pigeons.

15 And the priest shall
bring it unto the altar, and wring off his head, and burn it on the
altar; and the blood thereof shall be wrung out at the side of the
altar;

16 And he shall pluck
away his crop with his feathers, and cast it beside the altar on the
east part, by the place of the ashes.

17 And he shall cleave it
with the wings thereof, but shall not divide it asunder; and the
priest shall burn it upon the altar, upon the wood that is upon the
fire; it is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet
savor unto the Lord.

LEVITICUS 2

1 And when any will offer
a meat offering unto the Lord, his offering shall be of fine flour;
and he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense thereon.

2 And he shall bring it
to Aaron's sons the priests; and he shall take thereout his handful
of the flour thereof, and of the oil thereof, with all the
frankincense thereof; and the priest shall burn the memorial of it
upon the altar, to be an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto
the Lord;

3 And the remnant of the
meat offering shall be Aaron's and his sons'; it is a thing most holy
of the offerings of the Lord made by fire.

4 And if thou bring an
oblation of a meat offering baken in the oven, it shall be unleavened
cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed
with oil.

5 And if thy oblation be
a meat offering baken in a pan, it shall be of fine flour unleavened,
mingled with oil.

6 Thou shall part it in
pieces, and pour oil thereon; it is a meat offering.

7 And if thy oblation be
a meat offering baken in the frying-pan, it shall be made of fine
flour with oil.

8 And thou shalt bring
the meat offering that is made of these things unto the Lord; and
when it is presented unto the priest, he shall bring it unto the
altar.

9 And the priest shall
take from the meat offering a memorial thereof, and shall burn it
upon the altar; it is an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto
the Lord.

10 And that which is left
of the meat offering shall be Aaron's and his sons'; it is a thing
most holy of the offerings of the Lord made by fire.

11 No meat offering,
which ye shall bring unto the Lord, shall be made with leaven; for ye
shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any offering of the Lord made
by fire.

12 As for the oblation of
the first-fruits, ye shall offer them unto the Lord; but they shall
not be burnt on the altar for a sweet savor.

13 And every oblation of
thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou
suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy
meat offering; with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.

14 And if thou offer a
meat offering of thy first-fruits unto the Lord, thou shalt offer for
the meat offering of thy first-fruits green ears of corn dried by the
fire, even corn beaten out of full ears.

15 And thou shalt put oil
upon it, and lay frankincense thereon; it is a meat offering.

16 And the priest shall
burn the memorial of it, part of the beaten corn thereof, and part of
the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof; it is an offering
made by fire unto the Lord.

LEVITICUS 3

1 And if his oblation be
a sacrifice of peace offering, if he offer it of the herd, whether it
be a male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before the
Lord.

2 And he shall lay his
hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it at the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation; and Aaron's sons the priests shall
sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about.

3 And he shall offer of
the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire unto the
Lord; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon
the inwards.

4 And the two kidneys,
and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the caul
above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away.

5 And Aaron's sons shall
burn it on the altar upon the burnt sacrifice, which is upon the wood
that is on the fire; it is an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor
unto the Lord.

6 And if his offering for
a sacrifice of peace offering unto the Lord be of the flock, male or
female, he shall offer it without blemish.

7 If he offer a lamb for
his offering, then shall he offer it before the Lord.

8 And he shall lay his
hand upon the head of his offering, and kill it before the tabernacle
of the congregation; and Aaron's sons shall sprinkle the blood
thereof round about upon the altar.

9 And he shall offer of
the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire unto the
Lord; the fat thereof, and the whole rump, it shall he take off hard
by the backbone; and the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the
fat that is upon the inwards.

10 And the two kidneys,
and the fat that is upon them, which is by the flanks, and the caul
above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away.

11 And the priest shall
burn it upon the altar; it is the food of the offering made by fire
unto the Lord.

12 And if his offering be
a goat, then he shall offer it before the Lord.

13 And he shall lay his
hand upon the head of it, and kill it before the tabernacle of the
congregation; and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle the blood thereof
upon the altar round about.

14 And he shall offer
thereof his offering, even an offering made by fire unto the Lord;
the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the
inwards.

15 And the two kidneys,
and the fat that is upon them, which is by the flanks, and the caul
above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away.

16 And the priest shall
burn them upon the altar; it is the food of the offering made by fire
for a sweet savor; all the fat is the Lord's.

17 It shall be a
perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings,
that ye eat neither fat nor blood.

LEVITICUS 4

1 And the Lord spake unto
Moses saying,

2 Speak unto the children
of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin through ignorance against any
of the commandments of the Lord concerning things which ought not to
be done, and shall do against any of them;

3 If the priest that is
anointed do sin according to the sin of the people; then let him
bring for his sin, which he hath sinned, a young bullock without
blemish unto the Lord for a sin offering.

4 And he shall bring the
bullock unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before
the Lord; and shall lay his hand upon the bullock's head, and kill
the bullock before the Lord.

5 And the priest that is
anointed shall take of the bullock's blood, and bring it to the
tabernacle of the congregation;

6 And the priest shall
dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle of the blood seven times
before the Lord, before the veil of the sanctuary.

7 And the priest shall
put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar of sweet incense
before the Lord, which is in the tabernacle of the congregation; and
shall pour all the blood of the bullock at the bottom of the altar of
the burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation.

8 And he shall take off
from it all the fat of the bullock for the sin offering; the fat that
covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards,

9 And the two kidneys and
the fat that is upon them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above
the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away,

10 As it was taken off
from the bullock of the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest
shall burn them upon the altar of the burnt offering.

11 And the skin of the
bullock, and all his flesh, with his head, and with his legs, and his
inwards, and his dung.

12 Even the whole bullock
shall he carry forth without the camp unto a clean place, where the
ashes are poured out, and burn him on the wood with fire; where the
ashes are poured out shall he be burnt.

13 And if the whole
congregation of Israel sin through ignorance, and the thing be hid
from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done somewhat against
any of the commandments of the Lord concerning things which should
not be done, and are guilty;

14 When the sin which
they have sinned against it, is known, then the congregation shall
offer a young bullock for the sin, and bring him before the
tabernacle of the congregation.

15 And the elders of the
congregation shall lay their hands upon the head of the bullock
before the Lord; and the bullock shall be killed before the Lord.

16 And the priest that is
anointed shall bring of the bullock's blood to the tabernacle of the
congregation;

17 And the priest shall
dip his finger in some of the blood, and sprinkle it seven times
before the Lord, even before the veil.

18 And he shall put some
of the blood upon the horns of the altar which is before the Lord,
that is in the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall pour out all
the blood at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which is
at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

19 And he shall take all
his fat from him, and burn it upon the altar.

20 And he shall do with
the bullock as he did with the bullock for a sin offering, so shall
he do with this; and the priest shall make an atonement for them, and
it shall be forgiven them.

21 And he shall carry
forth the bullock without the camp, and burn him as he burned the
first bullock; it is a sin offering for the congregation.

22 When a ruler hath
sinned, and done somewhat through ignorance against any of the
commandments of the Lord his God concerning things which should not
be done, and is guilty;

23 Or if his sin, wherein
he hath sinned, come to his knowledge; he shall bring his offering, a
kid of the goats, a male without blemish;

24 And he shall lay his
hand upon the head of the goat, and kill it in the place where they
kill the burnt offering before the Lord; it is a sin offering.

25 And the priest shall
take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it
upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out his
blood at the bottom of the altar of burnt offering.

26 And he shall burn all
his fat upon the altar, as the fat of the sacrifice of peace
offerings; and the priest shall make an atonement for him as
concerning his sin, and it shall be forgiven him.

27 And if any one of the
common people sin through ignorance, while he doeth somewhat against
any of the commandments of the Lord concerning things which ought not
to be done, and be guilty;

28 Or if his sin, which
he hath sinned, come to his knowledge; then he shall bring his
offering, a kid of the goats, a female without blemish, for his sin
which he hath sinned.

29 And he shall lay his
hand upon the head of the sin offering, and slay the sin offering in
the place of the burnt offering.

30 And the priest shall
take of the blood thereof with his finger, and put it upon the horns
of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out all the blood
thereof at the bottom of the altar.

31 And he shall take away
all the fat thereof, as the fat is taken away from off the sacrifice
of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn it upon the altar for a
sweet savour unto the Lord; and the priest shall make an atonement
for him, and it shall be forgiven him.

32 And if he bring a lamb
for a sin offering, he shall bring it a female without blemish.

33 And he shall lay his
hand upon the head of the sin offering, and slay it for a sin
offering in the place where they kill the burnt offering.

34 And the priest shall
take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put it
upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out all
the blood thereof at the bottom of the altar;

35 And he shall take away
all the fat thereof, as the fat of the lamb is taken away from the
sacrifice of the peace offerings; and the priest shall burn them upon
the altar, according to the offerings made by fire unto the Lord; and
the priest shall make an atonement for his sin that he hath
committed, and it shall be forgiven him.

LEVITICUS 5

1 And if a soul sin, and
hear the voice of swearing, and is a witness, whether he hath seen or
known of it; if he do not utter it, then he shall bear his iniquity.

2 Or if a soul touch any
unclean thing, whether it be a carcass of an unclean beast, or a
carcass of unclean cattle, or the carcass of unclean creeping things,
and if it be hidden from him; he also shall be unclean, and guilty.

3 Or if he touch the
uncleanness of man, whatsoever uncleanness it be that a man shall be
defiled withal, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then
he shall be guilty.

4 Or if a soul swear,
pronouncing with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatsoever it be
that a man shall pronounce with an oath, and it be hid from him; when
he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty in one of these.

5 And it shall be, when
he shall be guilty in one of these things, that he shall confess that
he hath sinned in that thing;

6 And he shall bring his
trespass offering unto the Lord for his sin which he hath sinned, a
female from the flock, a lamb, or a kid of the goats, for a sin
offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him concerning
his sin.

7 And if he be not able
to bring a lamb, then he shall bring for his trespass, which he hath
committed, two turtle doves, or two young pigeons, unto the Lord; one
for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering.

8 And he shall bring them
unto the priest, who shall offer that which is for the sin offering
first, and wring off his head from his neck, but shall not divide it
asunder;

9 And he shall sprinkle
of the blood of the sin offering upon the side of the altar; and the
rest of the blood shall be wrung out at the bottom of the altar; it
is a sin offering.

10 And he shall offer the
second for a burnt offering, according to the manner; and the priest
shall make an atonement for him for his sin which he hath sinned, and
it shall be forgiven him.

11 But if he be not able
to bring two turtle doves, or two young pigeons, then he that sinned
shall bring for his offering the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour
for a sin offering; he shall put no oil upon it, neither shall he put
any frankincense thereon; for it is a sin offering.

12 Then shall he bring it
to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it, even a
memorial thereof, and burn it on the altar, according to the
offerings made by fire unto the Lord; it is a sin offering.

13 And the priest shall
make an atonement for him as touching his sin that he hath sinned in
one of these, and it shall be forgiven him; and the remanant shall be
the priest's, as a meat offering.

14 And the Lord spake
unto Moses, saying,

15 If a soul commit a
trespass, and sin through ignorance, in the holy things of the Lord;
then he shall bring for his treespass unto the Lord a ram without
blemish out of the flocks, with thy estimation by shekels of silver,
after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering;

16 And he shall make
amends for the harm that he hath done in the holy thing, and shall
add the fifth part thereto, and give it unto the priest; and the
priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass
offering, and it shall be forgiven him.

17 And if a soul sin, and
commit any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the
commandments of the Lord; though he wist it not, yet is he guilty,
and shall bear his iniquity.

18 And he shall bring a
ram without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a
trespass offering, unto the priest; and the priest shall make an
atonement for him concerning his ignorance wherein he erred and wist
it not, and it shall be forgiven him.

19 It is a trespass
offering; he hath certainly trespassed against the Lord.

LEVITICUS 6

1 And the Lord spake unto
Moses, saying,

2 If a soul sin, and
commit a trespass against the Lord, and lie unto his neighbor in that
which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing
taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbor;

3 Or have found that
which was lost, and lieth concerning it, and sweareth falsely; in any
of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein;

4 Then it shall be,
because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that he shall restore that
which he took violently away, or the thing which he hath deceitfully
gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or the lost thing
which he found,

5 Or all that about which
he hath sworn falsely; he shall even restore it in the principal, and
shall add the fifth part more thereto, and give it unto him to whom
it appertaineth, in the day of his trespass offering.

6 And he shall bring his
trespass offering unto the Lord, a ram without blemish out of the
flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass offering, unto the priest;

7 And the priest shall
make an atonement for him before the Lord; and it shall be forgiven
him for any thing of all that he hath done in trespassing therein.

8 And the Lord spake unto
Moses, saying,

9 Command Aaron and his
sons, saying, This is the law of the burnt offering; It is the burnt
offering, because of the burning upon the altar all night unto the
morning, and the fire of the altar shall be burning in it.

10 And the priest shall
put on his linen garment, and his linen breeches shall he put upon
his flesh, and take up the ashes which the fire hath consumed with
the burnt offering on the altar, and he shall put them beside the
altar.

11 And he shall put off
his garments, and put on other garments, and carry forth the ashes
without the camp unto a clean place.

12 And the fire upon the
altar shall be burning in it; it shall not be put out; and the priest
shall burn wood on it every morning, and lay the burnt offering in
order upon it; and he shall burn thereon the fat of the peace
offerings.

13 The fire shall ever be
burning upon the altar; it shall never go out.

14 And this is the law of
the meat offering; The sons of Aaron shall offer it before the Lord,
before the altar.

15 And he shall take of
it his handful, of the flour of the meat offering, and of the oil
thereof, and all the frankincense which is upon the meat offering,
and shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savor, even the memorial
of it, unto the Lord.

16 And the remainder
thereof shall Aaron and his sons eat; with unleavened bread shall it
be eaten in the holy place; in the court of the tabernacle of the
congregation they shall eat it.

17 It shall not be baken
with leaven. I have given it unto them for their portion of my
offerings made by fire; it is most holy, as is the sin offering, and
as the trespass offering.

18 All the males among
the children of Aaron shall eat of it. It shall be a statute for ever
in your generations concerning the offerings of the Lord made by
fire; every one that toucheth them shall be holy.

19 And the Lord spake
unto Moses, saying,

20 This is the offering
of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer unto the Lord in the
day when he is anointed; the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for
a meat offering perpetual, half of it in the morning, and half
thereof at night.

21 In a pan it shall be
made with oil; and when it is baken, thou shalt bring it in; and the
baken pieces of the meat offering shalt thou offer for a sweet savor
unto the Lord.

22 And the priest of his
sons that is anointed in his stead shall offer it; it is a statute
for ever unto the Lord; it shall be wholly burnt.

23 For every meat
offering for the priest shall be wholly burnt; it shall not be eaten.

24 And the Lord spake
unto Moses, saying,

25 Speak unto Aaron and
to his sons, saying, This is the law of the sin offering; In the
place where the burnt offering is killed shall the sin offering be
killed before the Lord; it is most holy.

26 The priest that
offereth it for sin shall eat it; in the holy place shall it be
eaten, in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation.

27 Whatsoever shall touch
the flesh thereof shall be holy; and when there is sprinkled of the
blood thereof upon any garment, thou shalt wash that whereon it was
sprinkled in the holy place.

28 But the earthen vessel
wherein it is sodden shall be broken; and if it be sodden in a brazen
pot, it shall be both scoured, and rinsed in water.

29 All the males among
the priests shall eat thereof; it is most holy.

30 And no sin offering,
whereof any of the blood is brought into the tabernacle of the
congregation to reconcile withal in the holy place, shall be eaten;
it shall be burnt in the fire.

LEVITICUS 7

1 Likewise this is the
law of the trespass offering; it is most holy.

2 In the place where they
kill the burnt offering shall they kill the trespass offering; and
the blood thereof shall he sprinkle round about upon the altar.

3 And he shall offer of
it all the fat thereof; the rump, and the fat that covereth the
inwards.

4 And the two kidneys,
and the fat that is on them, which is by the flanks, and the caul
that is above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away;

5 And the priest shall
burn them upon the altar for an offering made by fire unto the Lord;
it is a trespass offering.

6 Every male among the
priests shall eat thereof; it shall be eaten in the holy place; it is
most holy.

7 As the sin offering is,
so is the trespass offering; there is one law for them; the priest
that maketh atonement therewith shall have it.

8 And the priest that
offereth any man's burnt offering, even the priest shall have to
himself the skin of the burnt offering which he hath offered.

9 And all the meat
offering that is baken in the oven, and all that is dressed in the
frying-pan, and in the pan, shall be the priest's that offereth it.

10 And every meat
offering, mingled with oil, and dry, shall all the sons of Aaron
have, one as much as another.

11 And this is the law of
the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he shall offer unto the Lord.

12 If he offer it for a
thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving
unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed
with oil, and cakes mingled with oil, of fine flour, fried.

13 Besides the cakes, he
shall offer for his offering leavened bread with the sacrifice of
thanksgiving of his peace offerings.

14 And of it he shall
offer one out of the whole oblation for a heave offering unto the
Lord, and it shall be the priest's that sprinkleth the blood of the
peace offerings.

15 And the flesh of the
sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten the
same day that it is offered; he shall not leave any of it until the
morning.

16 But if the sacrifice
of his offering be a vow, or a voluntary offering, it shall be eaten
the same day that he offereth his sacrifice; and on the morrow also
the remainder of it shall be eaten;

17 But the remainder of
the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burnt with fire.

18 And if any of the
flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings be eaten at all on the
third day, it shall not be accepted, neither shall it be imputed unto
him that offereth it; it shall be an abomination, and the soul that
eateth of it shall bear his iniquity.

19 And the flesh that
toucheth any unclean thing shall not be eaten; it shall be burnt with
fire; and as for the flesh, all that be clean shall eat thereof.

20 But the soul that
eateth of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, that pertain
unto the Lord, having his uncleanness upon him, even that soul shall
be cut off from his people.

21 Moreover the soul that
shall touch any unclean thing, as the uncleanness of man, or any
unclean beast, or any abominable unclean thing, and eat of the flesh
of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which pertain unto the Lord,
even that soul shall be cut off from his people.

22 And the Lord spake
unto Moses, saying,

23 Speak unto the
children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or
of sheep, or of goat.

24 And the fat of the
beast that dieth of itself, and the fat of that which is torn with
beasts, may be used in any other use; but ye shall in no wise eat of
it.

25 For whosoever eateth
the fat of the beast, of which men offer an offering made by fire
unto the Lord, even the soul that eateth it shall be cut off from his
people.

26 Moreover ye shall eat
no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your
dwellings.

27 Whatsoever soul it be
that eateth any manner of blood, even that soul shall be cut off from
his people.

28 And the Lord spake
unto Moses, saying,

29 Speak unto the
children of Israel, saying, He that offereth the sacrifice of his
peace offerings unto the Lord, shall bring his oblation unto the Lord
of the sacrifice of his peace offerings.

30 His own hands shall
bring the offerings of the Lord made by fire, the fat with the
breast; it shall he bring, that the breast may be waved for a wave
offering before the Lord.

31 And the priest shall
burn the fat upon the altar; but the breast shall be Aaron's and his
sons'.

32 And the right shoulder
shall ye give unto the priest for a heave offering of the sacrifices
of your peace offerings.

33 He among the sons of
Aaron, that offereth the blood of the peace offerings, and the fat,
shall have the right shoulder for his part.

34 For the wave breast
and the heave shoulder have I taken of the children of Israel from
off the sacrifices of their peace offerings, and have given them unto
Aaron the priest and unto his sons, by a statute for ever, from among
the children of Israel.

35 This is the portion of
the anointing of Aaron, and of the anointing of his sons, out of the
offerings of the Lord made by fire, in the day when he presented them
to minister unto the Lord in the priest's office;

36 Which the Lord
commanded to be given them of the children of Israel, in the day that
he anointed them, by a statute for ever throughout their generations.

37 This is the law of the
burnt offering, of the meat offering, and of the sin offering, and of
the trespass offering, and of the consecrations, and of the sacrifice
of the peace offerings;

38 Which the Lord
commanded Moses in mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded the
children of Israel to offer their oblations unto the Lord, in the
wilderness of Sinai.

LEVITICUS 8

1 And the Lord spake unto
Moses, saying,

2 Take Aaron and his sons
with him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and a bullock for
the sin offering, and two rams, and a basket of unleavened bread;

3 And gather thou all the
congregation together unto the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation.

4 And Moses did as the
Lord commanded him; and the assembly was gathered together unto the
door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

5 And Moses said unto the
congregation, This is the thing which the Lord commanded to be done.

6 And Moses brought Aaron
and his sons, and washed them with water.

7 And he put upon him the
coat, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the robe,
and put the ephod upon him, and he girded him with the curious girdle
of the ephod, and bound it unto him therewith.

8 And he put the
breastplate upon him; also he put in the breastplate the Urim and the
Thummim.

9 And he put the mitre
upon his head; also upon the mitre, even upon his fore-front, did he
put the golden plate, the holy crown; as the Lord commanded Moses.

10 And Moses took the
anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was therein,
and sanctified them.

11 And he sprinkled
thereof upon the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all
his vessels, both the laver and his foot, to sanctify them.

12 And he poured of the
anointing oil upon Aaron's head, and anointed him, to sanctify him.

13 And Moses brought
Aaron's sons, and put coats upon them, and girded them with girdles,
and put bonnets upon them; as the Lord commanded Moses.

14 And he brought the
bullock for the sin offering; and Aaron and his sons laid their hands
upon the head of the bullock for a sin offering.

15 And he slew it; and
Moses took the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar round
about with his finger, and purified the altar, and poured the blood
at the bottom of the altar, and sanctified it, to make reconciliation
upon it.

16 And he took all the
fat that was upon the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the
two kidneys, and their fat, and Moses burned it upon the altar.

17 But the bullock, and
his hide, his flesh, and his dung, he burnt with fire without the
camp; as the Lord commanded Moses.

18 And he brought the ram
for the burnt offering; and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon
the head of the ram.

19 And he killed it; and
Moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about.

20 And he cut the ram
into pieces; and Moses burnt the head, and the pieces, and the fat.

21 And he washed the
inwards and the legs in water; and Moses burnt the whole ram upon the
altar; it was a burnt sacrifice for a sweet savor, and an offering
made by fire unto the Lord; as the Lord commanded Moses.

22 And he brought the
other ram, the ram of consecration; and Aaron and his sons laid their
hands upon the head of the ram.

23 And he slew it; and
Moses took of the blood of it, and put it upon the tip of Aaron's
right ear, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great
toe of his right foot.

24 And he brought Aaron's
sons, and Moses put of the blood upon the tip of their right ear, and
upon the thumbs of their right hands, and upon the great toes of
their right feet; and Moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar round
about.

25 And he took the fat,
and the rump, and all the fat that was upon the inwards, and the caul
above the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and the right
shoulder;

26 And out of the basket
of unleavened bread, that was before the Lord, he took one unleavened
cake, and a cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and put them on the
fat, and upon the right shoulder;

27 And he put all upon
Aaron's hands, and upon his sons' hands, and waved them for a wave
offering before the Lord.

28 And Moses took them
from off their hands, and burnt them on the altar upon the burnt
offering; they were consecrations for a sweet savor; it is an
offering made by fire unto the Lord.

29 And Moses took the
breast, and waved it for a wave offering before the Lord; for of the
ram of consecration it was Moses' part; as the Lord commanded Moses.

30 And Moses took of the
anointing oil, and of the blood which was upon the altar, and
sprinkled it upon Aaron, and upon his garments, and upon his sons,
and upon his sons' garments with him; and sanctified Aaron, and his
garments, and his sons, and his sons' garments with him.

31 And Moses said unto
Aaron and to his sons, Boil the flesh at the door of the tabernacle
of the congregation; and there eat it with the bread that is in the
basket of consecrations, as I commanded, saying, Aaron and his sons
shall eat it.

32 And that which
remaineth of the flesh and of the bread shall ye burn with fire.

33 And ye shall not go
out of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation in seven days,
until the days of your consecration be at an end; for seven days
shall he consecrate you.

34 As he hath done this
day, so the Lord hath commanded to do, to make an atonement for you.

35 Therefore shall ye
abide at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation day and night
seven days, and keep the charge of the Lord, that ye die not; for so
I am commanded.

36 So Aaron and his sons
did all things which the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses.

LEVITICUS 9

1 And it came to pass on
the eighth day, that Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders
of Israel;

2 And he said unto Aaron,
Take thee a young calf for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt
offering, without blemish, and offer them before the Lord.

3 And unto the children
of Israel thou shalt speak, saying, Take ye a kid of the goats for a
sin offering; and a calf and a lamb, both of the first year, without
blemish, for a burnt offering.

4 Also a bullock and a
ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before the Lord; and a meat
offering mingled with oil; for to-day the Lord will appear unto you.

5 And they brought that
which Moses commanded before the tabernacle of the congregation; and
all the congregation drew near and stood before the Lord.

6 And Moses said, This is
the thing which the Lord commanded that ye should do; and the glory
of the Lord shall appear unto you.

7 And Moses said unto
Aaron, Go unto the altar, and offer thy sin offering, and thy burnt
offering, and make an atonement for thyself, and for the people; and
offer the offering of the people, and make an atonement for them; as
the Lord commanded.

8 Aaron therefore went
unto the altar, and slew the calf of the sin offering, which was for
himself.

9 And the sons of Aaron
brought the blood unto him; and he dipped his finger in the blood,
and put it upon the horns of the altar, and poured out the blood at
the bottom of the altar.

10 But the fat, and the
kidneys, and the caul above the liver of the sin offering, he burnt
upon the altar, as the Lord commanded Moses.

11 And the flesh and the
hide he burnt with fire without the camp.

12 And he slew the burnt
offering; and Aaron's sons presented unto him the blood, which he
sprinkled round about upon the altar.

13 And they presented the
burnt offering unto him, with the pieces thereof, and the head; and
he burnt them upon the altar.

14 And he did wash the
inwards and the legs, and burnt them upon the burnt offering on the
altar.

15 And he brought the
people's offering, and took the goat, which was the sin offering for
the people, and slew it, and offered it for sin, as the first.

16 And he brought the
burnt offering, and offered it according to the manner.

17 And he brought the
meat offering, and took a handful thereof, and burnt it upon the
altar, besides the burnt sacrifice of the morning.

18 He slew also the
bullock and the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings, which was for
the people; and Aaron's sons presented unto him the blood, which he
sprinkled upon the altar round about,

19 And the fat of the
bullock and of the ram, the rump, and that which covereth the
inwards, and the kidneys, and the caul above the liver;

20 And they put the fat
upon the breasts, and he burnt the fat upon the altar;

21 And the breasts and
the right shoulder Aaron waved for a wave offering before the Lord;
as Moses commanded.

22 And Aaron lifted up
his hand toward the people, and blessed them; and came down from
offering of the sin offering, and the burnt offering, and peace
offerings.

23 And Moses and Aaron
went into the tabernacle of the congregation, and came out, and
blessed the people; and the glory of the Lord appeared unto all the
people.

24 And there came a fire
out from before the Lord, and consumed upon the altar the burnt
offering and the fat; which when all the people saw, they shouted,
and fell on their faces.

LEVITICUS 10

1 And Nadab and Abihu,
the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire
therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the
Lord, which he commanded them not.

2 And there went out fire
from the Lord, and devoured them, and they died before the Lord.

3 Then Moses said unto
Aaron, This is it that the Lord spake, saying, I will be sanctified
in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be
glorified. And Aaron held his peace.

4 And Moses called
Mishael and Elzaphan, the sons of Uzziel the uncle of Aaron, and said
unto them, Come near, carry your brethren from before the sanctuary
out of the camp.

5 So they went near, and
carried them in their coats out of the camp; as Moses had said.

6 And Moses said unto
Aaron, and unto Eleazar, and unto Ithamar, his sons, Uncover not your
heads, neither rend your clothes; lest ye die, and lest wrath come
upon all the people; but let your brethren, the whole house of
Israel, bewail the burning which the Lord hath kindled.

7 And ye shall not go out
from the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die; for
the anointing oil of the Lord is upon you. And they did according to
the word of Moses.

8 And the Lord spake unto
Aaron, saying,

9 Do not drink wine nor
strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the
tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die; it shall be a statute
for ever throughout your generations;

10 And that ye may put
difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;

11 And that ye may teach
the children of Israel all the statutes which the Lord hath spoken
unto them by the hand of Moses.

12 And Moses spake unto
Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons that were left,
Take the meat offering that remaineth of the offerings of the Lord
made by fire, and eat it without leaven beside the altar; for it is
most holy.

13 And ye shall eat it in
the holy place, because it is thy due, and thy sons' due, of the
sacrifices of the Lord made by fire; for so I am commanded.

14 And the wave breast
and heave shoulder shall ye eat in a clean place; thou, and thy sons,
and thy daughters with thee; for they be thy due, and thy sons' due,
which are given out of the sacrifices of peace offerings of the
children of Israel.

15 The heave shoulder and
the wave breast shall they bring with the offerings made by fire of
the fat, to wave it for a wave offering before the Lord; and it shall
be thine, and thy sons' with thee, by a statute for ever; as the Lord
hath commanded.

16 And Moses diligently
sought the goat of the sin offering, and, behold, it was burnt; and
he was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron which were
left alive, saying,

17 Wherefore have ye not
eaten the sin offering in the holy place, seeing it is most holy, and
God hath given it you to bear the iniquity of the congregation, to
make atonement for them before the Lord?

18 Behold, the blood of
it was not brought in within the holy place; ye should indeed have
eaten it in the holy place, as I commanded.

19 And Aaron said unto
Moses, Behold, this day have they offered their sin offering and
their burnt offering before the Lord; and such things have befallen
me; and if I had eaten the sin offering to-day, should it have been
accepted in the sight of the Lord?

20 And when Moses heard
that, he was content.

LEVITICUS 11

1 And the Lord spake unto
Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them,

2 Speak unto the children
of Israel, saying, These are the beasts which ye shall eat among all
the beasts that are on the earth.

3 Whatsoever parteth the
hoof, and is cloven-footed, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts,
that shall ye eat.

4 Nevertheless, these
shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide
the hoof; as the camel, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not
the hoof; he is unclean unto you.

5 And the coney, because
he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto
you.

6 And the hare, because
he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto
you.

7 And the swine, though
he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud;
he is unclean to you.

8 Of their flesh shall ye
not eat, and their carcass shall ye not touch; they are unclean to
you.

9 These shall ye eat of
all that are in the waters; whatsoever hath fins and scales in the
waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat.

10 And all that have not
fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in
the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they
shall be an abomination unto you;